Stef Lewandowski Email & Phone Number

London, GB

Working fractionally as a lead software engineer and/or consultant CTO primarily in Applied AI. Projects have included consulting with an AI/VR healthtech spinout from Cleveland Clinic (a large US hospital) and building an AI lesson planning assistant aiming to support teachers to more easily and quickly design high-quality lessons, alongside advisory and.

London, GB

A platform to solve the data and workflow problems faced by CFOs of multi-entity businesses.If your company is made up of several legal entities, say one in the UK, one in the EU and one in Australia, reasoning about your finances can become complex and require some Excel-wrangling.Translucent takes a data warehouse-first approach, ingests your data from.

San Francisco, California, US

On Deck is a curated community headquartered in San Francisco designed to increase early stage founders' odds of building a successful venture-backed company.I led the Platform team which encompasses Data, No-Code, Business Infrastructure and Funnel during a period of explosive growth. I joined the team at seed stage when the company had a team of 30. The.

National, GB

Oak is a non-profit COVID response project to support UK teachers in continuing to educate their students while schools are closed or students are isolating at home. During the pandemic year we served over 120 million lessons to UK children, and supported ~4.5 million children per month.In response to the first UK lockdown, a group of teachers and tech.

Amsterdam, North Holland, NL

Consulting in ING's London Lab on new ventures at the intersection of finance, tech, and sustainability. By 2040 the world collectively needs to have invested $68T to keep us below 2 degrees of warming. Our team worked on how to build scalable ways to meet that ambition using a lean experiment-driven approach: first, research and discover significant.

London, London, GB

A passion project that turned into a bootstrapped e-learning business led by my wife, Emily Quinton – an online learning community for makers and creative small business owners, including video courses, data analytics tools and community features via a monthly subscription. The user base grew to over 100,000 while I was contributing.As the sole software.

London, England, GB

Developing new digital ventures around e-commerce logistics and supply chain with backing from DHL. Leading on the technology side of the venture building process, but with a lot of input into strategy, business model and deal structure. Developed a web-based lean experiment knowledge base app that we used to run our business model validation work. Built a.

London, England, GB

I'm fascinated with the process of developing prototypes into fully-fledged products and businesses. Particularly where you can draw on a unique understanding of a particular technology or industry. At Makeshift I learned a ton about what does and doesn't work, and at Rainmaking I helped build and run a venture studio to kickstart Jaguar Land Rover's.

London, GB

A startup studio dedicated to giving a leg up to the little guy.The model was to build a series of small digital prototypes based on our own ideas, test them out rapidly by releasing and getting feedback early, then investing in the ideas that show the most promise.From about forty or fifty code sketches in the first year, we worked on a cohort of twelve.

Developed a mobile skate/BMX video app with funding from Red Bull, incubated by Sidekick Studios. Ran a three month project with Comic Relief around rapidly testing ideas that had been developed internally as one-week digital prototypes. Created a new way of running digitally-enabled events, culminating in a one-day strategy event for all ~1000 staff of.

London, GB

Collaborative video platform for professional TV, video and film-makers to make it easier to collaborate via the internet. I co-developed the patent that formed the basis for the company's technology and grew it from a team of two with a prototype to a team of 36 and a scalable software platform, raising $10m of venture funding through Pre-seed, Seed and.

A Webby-award-winning digital design and software agency. We got our big break when we were commissioned to design and build Vivienne Westwood's site using our proprietary PHP CMS.Worked with large brands like Mars, Sprite, Kitekat on web development and viral games. Built cutting-edge online experiences for cultural sector clients including the V&A.

I was responsible for all creative output of this boutique web development agency. Built websites for large multi-national clients using Flash and HTML, developed our own content management system using PHP and MySQL, and experimented with viral micro-games.

I sold my first web project to a client before I'd gone to University, so while I was there I topped up my income by freelancing. It was a fun time - animations, video graphics, websites, micro games… I learnt a lot about working with clients and building things that people wanted. During that time Antonio Gould and I met and we gathered with a few others.

Bsc, Computer Science / Software Engineering

Fellow, Cultural And Creative Leadership

International Baccalaureate