Simon Stern
Product Engineer & Developer Relations / Community Builder

Hello! I'm a Product Engineer, Developer Relations / Community Builder, and operator with a keen interest in creating cool software and sharing knowledge. Over the years I've had a diverse set of experiences ranging from full-stack development, product engineering, web3 scale-ups, AI & LLM's, and more. My biggest skills are curating signal, crafting communities, and world building on the frontier.
When I'm not building something, you can find me hanging out with my family. I'm always interested in hearing about new ideas so please reach out if you'd like to chat
Recent Work
- Superteam Canada - Leading Developer Relations for the Canadian Solana community.
- PredictTO - Prediction markets community in Toronto.
- Speakeasy Podcast - My YouTube channel where I interview high agency people.
- CutLog - Estimate your body fat percentage with AI and get personalized fitness guidance.
- HIP4 Markets - Live HIP-4 prediction markets on Hyperliquid with real-time price feeds, order books, and outcome metadata.
- Argue for Money - Prediction-market opinion aggregator with real-time market sentiment and public market abstractions.
- Full CV
Writing
- Solving Problems in Abundance - On what stays scarce when everything else is cheap
- DAOs are out, ADOs are in - Why DAOs never worked, and what AI delegation changes
- The 2028 Abundance Thesis - A response to Citrini Research's bear case.
- 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
Previous Work
- Infinite Ads - The people need more ads. I'm here to give it to them
- ACE Kids - Crypto education & smart wallets for kids
- Market Rivals - Betting on the stock market against your friends
- Juicy - Solana integrated on-chain social bets against your friends
- Network School - Living on the Frontier of the Network State
- SpeakEasy - The easiest way to get your message across
- Alle Aesthetics - Best in class app for HIPAA compliant rewards and referrals
- West Coast NFTs - Full Service Blue Chip NFT Development
- OrderUp - The most simple & affordable restaurant POS
- Weel - Mobile Mechanic at your fingertips
- Market Rivals - Betting on the stock market against your friends
Presentations & Workshops
- Converting a Complex React Native Class Camera Component to Hooks
- Building a serverless chatbot with AWS Lex, Lambda and Amazon Aurora
- Expo Developer Feature: Simon Stern
- Building a chatbot with AWS: Lex and Lambda
- Comparing React Native Boilerplates
- Workshopping Augmented Reality with ViroReact
- How to deploy a serverless endpoint on AWS in under 5 minutes