About Us

Both founders worked in high security, high scale environments at Coinbase.

Harry Tormey

Harry Tormey

CTO

15 years experience working in software engineering at Bay Area companies such as Meta, Apple, Coinbase and various early stage startups.

At Coinbase Harry was responsible for consumer Borrowing and Lending, On-Chain advertising, Earn.com, Pro Mobile and Web3 developer tools and SDK’s.

Harry has managed a variety of teams shipping products and infrastructure to millions of customers leveraging technologies such as Airflow, Python, AWS, NodeJS, NextJS, React, React Native.

Niall O’Higgins

Niall O’Higgins

CEO

Senior engineering leader with over 18 years of experience working at Bay Area tech companies and high security environments such as Metaweb, Nextdoor and Coinbase.

At Coinbase, Niall was responsible for all end-to-end Crypto transaction processing - tens of billions of dollars a day, 24/7/365.

Niall, wrote the O’Reilly book “MongoDB and Python”, has spoken at AWS re:Invent and PyCon. Developed Rosetta open source blockchain standard (“Docker for Blockchains”).

Maksym Naboka

Maksym Naboka

Founding Engineer

Maksym is a Staff Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience specializing in Infrastructure, Backend, and Distributed Systems at companies including Coinbase, Mesosphere and Google X.

Justin Rosenthal

Justin Rosenthal

Principal Engineer

Justin is a Principal Engineer with over 15 years of experience working at high-growth startups and companies such as Yahoo and Google. He specializes in distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure.

He co-founded and served as CTO of MessageMe, a mobile messaging platform acquired by Yahoo, where he focused on real-time messaging infrastructure. Later at Google he helped modernize the App Engine stack and developed an event-driven system for serverless workloads within Cloud.

Our Values

The values guiding StepChange’s work in redefining integration excellence with GenAI.

Customer Obsessed

Our customers are our top priority. Your needs and requirements drive everything we do. We constantly work to improve our customer experience and outcomes.

Ownership Mentality

We take accountability for delivering on customer commitments. Our commitment extends beyond merely reaching technical milestones; we actively engage in overcoming any obstacles that may arise, ensuring continuous progress towards project completion.

Clear Communication

We prioritize clear and direct communication. We actively listen to our customers' requirements and feedback to ensure your needs are understood and met effectively.

Effective Execution

We embrace a thoughtful engineering approach, prioritizing smarter solutions that yield swift, impactful outcomes ensuring quality results without delay.

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