Stefan F.

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States6 yrs 9 mos experience

AI Enabled

Key Highlights

Created a top open-source project at 18.
Grew VEED.IO from $0 to over $30M ARR.
Youngest GitHub employee, presenting to 3000 people.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Leader with a strong engineering background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementUser ResearchSoftware Development

Other Skills

Market AnalysisTeam ManagementAI SubtitlesVideo DubbingTranslationsOpen-source ContributionDocumentation ImprovementFront-end DevelopmentJavaScriptReact.jsWeb DevelopmentAlgorithmsDatabase DesignWeb ApplicationsData Structures

About

At 18, I created one of GitHub’s top open-source projects, reaching over 120,000 stars. As the youngest GitHub employee at 19, I left a dream job to join the founding team at VEED.IO. We grew from 0 to $1M ARR in under a year and later to over $30M ARR with 200+ team members. My engineering background and passion for AI drive me to turn ideas into successful products, always guided by user feedback and data. I bring energy, mentorship, and a collaborative spirit to my work, dedicated to building products that empower creative professionals and inspire my teams.

Experience

6 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 7 mos

Average Tenure

8 mos

Current Experience

Preview

Co-Founder & CEO

Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

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Vizcom

2 roles

Head of Product

Promoted

Jun 2025 – Aug 2025 · 2 mos

building design agents, scaling product org, and having fun

Senior Product Manager

Sep 2024 – Jun 2025 · 9 mos

first product hire

Filmhub

Senior Product Manager

Jan 2024 – Aug 2024 · 7 mos · Santa Monica, California, United States

first product hire

Veed.io

2 roles

Senior Product Manager

Promoted

Apr 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Joined as the 3rd hire and founding engineer, transitioning to product management after 2 years due to a strong obsession with product development, user needs, and the creative industry.
Contributed to growing the company from zero to over $30 million in ARR, scaling to 10 million monthly active users, and expanding the team to over 200 people.
Managed two remote teams totaling around 20 people, delivering strategically important products like AI Subtitles, Translations, Video Dubbing, and Voice Cloning, contributing over $20 million in annual recurring revenue.
Conceptualized and launched the Recorder, building and leading a team to grow it from zero to over 500,000 monthly users. The Recorder became Veed’s top acquisition channel, significantly driving enterprise and B2B growth.
Conducted extensive user research and market and technology trend analysis to inform product strategy and roadmap planning, ensuring alignment with user needs.
Led a revenue task force in the summer of 2023, identifying opportunities and adding over $1.5 million in ARR in 12 weeks.
Negotiated and saved over $250,000 in 2024 contracts while managing all third-party relationships.

Product ManagementUser ResearchMarket AnalysisTeam ManagementAI SubtitlesVideo Dubbing

Founding Engineer

Jun 2019 – Jan 2024 · 4 yrs 7 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Built an online video editor with a few friends. Grew from $0 to $30M+ ARR, 10M MAU, rendering one video per second, and team of 200.

Github

Software Engineer

Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 · 2 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Joined GitHub as the youngest software engineer intern at age 19, following the success of an open-source project I co-created, which became one of the top 50 open-source projects of all time with over 100k GitHub stars.
Presented the open-source project at GitHub Universe in San Francisco to an audience of 3000 people.
Shipped Docs Playground, a series of experimental prototypes to improve documentation for over 50 million users, and presented my work to Nat Friedman, CEO of GitHub at the time.
Left a cushy job offer in San Francisco to join the founding team of Veed, contributing to its growth to a $1B valuation.

Instana

Software Engineer

Apr 2019 – Dec 2019 · 8 mos

Acquired by IBM.
Worked on enhanced real-time application performance monitoring dashboards by developing features allowing user-configurable custom charts and tables with one-second granularity.

Software DevelopmentOpen-source ContributionDocumentation Improvement