Stephen Young
Stephen Young is a token engineer, smart contract developer and designer in the blockchain industry. Stephen is the Founder and CEO of NFTfi, a leading peer-to-peer liquidity protocol that serves as a marketplace for NFT collateralized loans. He works on open, borderless, neutral, censorship resistant public blockchain protocols, and is passionate about the potential that public, open, decentralized blockchains have to improve our society. Stephen has experience in all aspects of the software development life cycle, including quality assurance, product development, software development, design and software development methodologies such as SCRUM, Lean Agile and Kanban. Today, Stephen’s focus is on token engineering, Solidity and DApp development but he is also passionate about design.
EXPERTISE & EARLY CAREER
Stephen has worked on various languages, including Delphi, C#, Javascript, HTML, and Ruby, and learned OpenGL/OpenCl and processing.
He was a Chief Product Officer at Coindirect.com, responsible for the strategy, design and development of consumer product offerings.
He was Head of Digital marketing at Allan Gray, responsible for digital marketing strategy and implementation and various web offerings.
As an Applications Architect at Allan Gray, he was responsible for technical architecture, and was also involved in Allan Gray Retail.
He worked as a consultant at DVT for a variety of clients, specializing in architecture and rescuing problem projects.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Stephen was a guest on Unstoppable Domains.
He has also appeared as a guest on Real Vision.