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Stefan Smagula, software product manager
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Whether strategizing how to improve productivity via machine learning at Mozilla Firefox, conducting research on the trading floors of London and NYC, prioritizing a real-time risk visualization app used by NASA's Mission Control, Honda, and The White House Situation Room, helping to create a cloud-based IDE, or defining a mobile app for electric-car drivers, my goal is to help solve real problems.


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Google search engine results page

MAKING ADS MORE RELEVANT

Powering Google's local ads

Mountain View & NYC, 2007


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A CURE FOR RANGE ANXIETY

Clean energy reservation system

Austin, 2016-2017


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THE NEXT BLOOMBERG TERMINAL

Re-inventing a venerable app

New York City, 2012

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What others are saying

Ryan McDermott

UX Engineer at Google

"Stefan is a treasured asset for any team and I'm very proud to say that I worked with him." More...

Don Moore

CEO of Hydrogenxt

His "background enabled him to jump into a complex new domain [...] and to successfully devise a hardware/software system to meet our business plan." More...

Joel Wright

Director of Sales at Promoter.io

"From customer research and product ideation to product management and UX strategy there are few of his caliber." More...

Eric Schmidt

Then-CEO of Google

"One of the key achievements this year was...significant improvements to the user experience for geo-targeting." More...

Leadership style

Angela Pablo

UX at Google

"Taught me the importance of understanding how software works from top to bottom, enabling me to make more strategic design decisions" More...

Andrew Cramer

Lead Experience Designer, Frog

Stefan "enables his teams to own the projects they're working on while also providing guidance and a high-level perspective on the tough strategic choices" More...

James Prickitt

Consultant

"Stefan is a considerate team leader who listens well and elicits good ideas from team members to make the product the best it can be." More...

Resume

Stefan Smagula

Software product manager
Stefan has helped to create successful products used by billions of people around the world. In 2024 he is proud to work at Mozilla Firefox, and has contributed to companies such as Bloomberg, The Economist, and Google. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island and has degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and Yale. See Stefan's 2017 resume

To 'Augment Human Intelligence'

My goal is to help create software that extends our hands and minds and improves people's lives

Curious about the world

I'm curious about the connections between disciplines, the places where radically different ideas get yoked together to create something new.

Product management and design

I research, validate, and prioritize efforts so teams can focus on highest value, lowest complexity work. My background is in UX and product design.

Spirit of invention

Douglas Englebart and Vannevar Bush demonstrated that software can extend our minds. It's this spirit of invention that inspires me.

Get in touch

Drop me a line

I'm always open to learning about opportunities to co-found or contribute to a technology organization that values invention and the common good

Contact

stefan.smagula via gmail
+1 718-306-9746

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Let's get coffee and chat

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