Simon Stern

• 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.

• Led developer relations for the Canadian Solana community, including builder programs, hackathons, and grant pipelines.
• Doubled Canadian participation in Colosseum, Solana’s global hackathon.
• Ran the end-to-end Canadian leg of the TxODDS hackathon — Canada swept 3 prizes and posted the highest per-capita entry rate.
• Launched an AI roundtable series that became a top new-member channel; at least a third of attendees cited it as why they joined.
• Built TTWChat.com to capture 500+ attendees during Toronto Tech Week and funnel them into Superteam initiatives.
• Co-hosted Digital Asset Summit Ontario.

• 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.

• Owned Referral program initiative from concept to launch, leading to exceptional organic growth metrics.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• Founded the local prediction-market community in Toronto with 150+ members.
• Brought economist Robin Hanson — a father of prediction markets — to Toronto to headline a 100+ person event alongside senior banking and prediction-market executives.
• Facilitated $30k+ in sponsorship toward PredictTO event stewardship.
• Manage multiple sponsorship and corporate partnerships.

• Founded the robotics club at Network School and raised $100k in funding.

• 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.

• 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

• Converting a Complex React Native Class Camera Component to Hooks — The Startup
• Building a Serverless Chatbot with AWS Lex, Lambda and Amazon Aurora — Hackernoon
• Expo Developer Feature: Simon Stern — Expo Blog
• Deploy a Serverless Endpoint on AWS with SSL in Under 5 Minutes — Medium

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