Simon Stern
Product Engineer · Founder of Apricot Studios · DevRel & Community Builder
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Product engineer and developer-relations operator based in Toronto. I build full-stack software at the intersection of mobile, AI/LLMs, and web3, and I run communities, podcasts, and meetups around the products I care about.
Currently leading developer relations for Superteam Canada, running PredictTO, hosting the Speakeasy Podcast, and shipping AI-powered consumer apps through Apricot Studios.
Apricot Studios — Founder
2024–present- AI automation studio building systems that live inside teams' existing tools — Slack, GitHub, Linear, CRMs.
- Three product lines: Product Team Automation (ticket grooming, sprint planning, PRDs), Claude Code for Engineering (PR review, docs, debugging), and Email & Communication Flows.
- Headline thesis: 15+ hours/week of PM/eng time disappears into work that does not require human judgment — AI agents inside the workflow recover it.
CutLog Mobile App — Product Leader
2025- Identified profitable market gap for a B2C health platform doing AI-powered body composition analysis.
- Designed user-acquisition strategy with $3.50 CPI and 25% install-to-paid conversion for fast profitability.
- Developed partnerships with high-profile creators for immediate go-to-market capability.
Allergan Data Labs — Senior Product and Engineering Lead
Jun 2020 – Dec 2024- Led and developed flagship refer-a-friend feature that brought in $30M in attributable revenue.
- B2B product adoption: helped onboard 100+ clinics with implementation of Provider Directory feature.
- Product Lead for flagship feature leading to 41% reduction in user CPA and $400M+ in DTC sales.
- Process improvement: developed multi-tier feature flag integration for attribution tracking with Optimizely.
- Defined data instrumentation strategy across Branch, Braze, and Segment.
OrderUp (acquired by Wealthsimple) — Product Engineer
Dec 2019 – May 2020- Managed feature scoping to get core product ready in 3 months for immediate go-to-market.
- Unified mobile, web, and iPad app experience for rapid feature prototyping.
- Built a dynamic content system letting teams ship updates without submitting new App releases.
University of Toronto — Full Stack Instructor (part-time)
Dec 2019 – Apr 2020- Taught full-stack development to 30+ individuals at the U of T School of Continuing Education.
- Developed new curriculum for industry-leading technology and corporate partners (RBI, UofA).
Alle Aesthetics
↗Best-in-class HIPAA-compliant rewards & referrals platform for beauty and wellness (React Native).
Staccato AI
AI music composition tool built on top of language models.
Maple
Virtual healthcare platform serving Canada.
Underknown
Content management system for educational video producers.
West Coast NFTs
↗Full-service blue-chip NFT development shop.
OrderUp
↗Simple, affordable restaurant POS with bill-splitting.
CutLog
↗AI body composition analysis and personalized fitness guidance.
HIP4 Markets
↗Live HIP-4 prediction markets on Hyperliquid with real-time price feeds, outcome metadata, and automated market discovery.
Argue for Money
↗Prediction-market opinion aggregator with real-time market sentiment and public market abstractions.
Network School
↗Living on the frontier of the network state.
SpeakEasy
↗The easiest way to get your message across.
Weel
↗Mobile mechanic at your fingertips.
ACE Kids
↗Crypto education and smart wallets for kids.
Market Rivals
↗Real-time fantasy trading engine — bet on the stock market against your friends.
Juicy
↗Solana-integrated on-chain social bets.
Infinite Ads
↗The people need more ads. I'm here to give it to them.
Superteam Canada — Developer Relations Lead
2025–present- Leading developer relations for the Canadian Solana community.
- Coordinating builder programs, hackathons, and grant pipelines for Canadian Solana developers.
PredictTO — Founder & Organizer
2025–present- Founded the local prediction-market community in Toronto with 150+ members.
- Manage multiple sponsorship and corporate partnerships.
Network School Robotics Club — Founder
2024- Founded the robotics club at Network School and raised $100k in funding.
Mobile Apps Meetup — Founder
2018–present- Grew the local group to 2,600+ members and the Discord to 250+.
- Hosted 40+ events with diverse speakers and sponsorships.
- Manage large budgets and multiple sponsorship tiers.
Speakeasy Podcast — Host
2025–present- YouTube channel interviewing high-agency people: founders, builders, operators.
- >10k views in the first 45 days.
- Interviewed 10+ founders and builders in the prediction-market space.
Long-form Writing
- The 2028 Abundance Thesis — a response to Citrini Research's bear case, with equal rigor.
- DAOs are out, ADOs are in — why DAOs never worked, and what AI delegation changes.
- The Oracle Machine — on prediction markets, reasoning agents, and the last job worth having.
- The Market Always Knows — a short story about a city that handed policy to prediction markets.
Articles & Tutorials
Talks & Workshops
- Building a chatbot with AWS: Lex and Lambda
- Comparing React Native Boilerplates — React Native MTL
- Workshopping Augmented Reality with ViroReact — React Native MTL
University of Western Ontario — Bachelor of Science, Honors Specialization in Biochemistry.
Best ways to reach me:
- Email: simon@apricotstudios.ca
- Book a call: cal.com/simon-stern-ayjvsq
- GitHub: @simistern
- LinkedIn: simon-stern
- Studio: apricotstudios.ca