Mike Stachowiak
Managing Partner at Pioneer Fund
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Stachowiak is a veteran founder and engineering leader with 13+ years of experience building products, technology platforms, and high-performing teams that have led to three exits. He combines deep technical expertise—particularly in natural language processing, with multiple patents—to solve business problems and launch successful companies like MyVR and Lift Media. As a seed investor and early backer of companies such as Zapier and Guesty, he pairs an operator’s instincts with an investor’s eye for scalable business models. Currently building CodePeer.com and leading Zero Index and Capvia, he focuses on AI-assisted developer tooling and startup fundraising infrastructure. Based in Seattle, he’s known for shipping pragmatic, scalable systems and for turning experimental ideas into commercially valuable IP.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBSE, Computer Engineering, BSE, Computer Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (52)
javascript10
react-native10
testing10
vite10
web-components10
webpack10
vue10
html10
svelte10
web-development10
react10
documentation10
angular10
storybook9
ui-components9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
myvr/myvr-python
Jan 2016 - Dec 2020
Python library for the MyVR API.
Contributions:1 review, 6 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 11 months
python
mntlabs/.github
Jan 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 3 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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