Stef Lewandowski

“Lean in. Focus. Step into the opportunity space and try to make a difference.”

Stef is a software developer, designer and startup founder. A hacker for short. His work focuses on playful approaches to technology and its cultural, social and political applications. He playfully hacks on things that matter and lives by the maxim “create something every day”.

Stef is the co-founder of Makeshift - a digital product company where they’re building a series of useful web/mobile/tech products aimed at ‘giving a leg up to the little guy’.

Prior to Makeshift, he co-founded Aframe, a cloud-based video production platform. As the technical founder, he helped grow the company from two to over thirty staff, saw it through $10m of private investment and on to expansion in North America.

Currently, he leads the software development team at Oak National Academy, helping UK education navigate through the challenges presented by COVID by building on an online learning platform.