SG Steve Gorski Portfolio

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer · San Francisco, CA

Steve Gorski’s portfolio

Senior full-stack software engineer with the instincts and ownership of an ex-founder and community builder, shipping revenue-driving products end‑to‑end.

I started a small software company at age 13 and I’ve been shipping ever since - 17 years and counting.

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Below is a portfolio of the things I’m proudest of - hosting community events, and some of my favorite software projects.

The events first, then four projects in depth

Quick highlights

1,000,000+ users

unique players on a company I started at age 13

StompzCraft

$60K/YR

revenue of my first business, which I started at age 13

StompzCraft

$1M competition

XPRIZE finalist - tied for 2nd place at the United Nations in NYC

Soterra

Tens of thousands

of company websites continuously monitored for job postings

Cutback

17 years

of building and shipping software products

Dozens

of in-person events created, hosted and co-hosted in SF

Community & events

Community & events

I host community events.

01 Hackathon × no engineering required

Created, filled and ran “Thinkathon”

A one-day hackathon with the engineering requirement removed - San Francisco, April 2025. I got a professional event space for $0 in trade for Google reviews, then filled it to the venue’s legal capacity - mostly with strangers I cold-messaged because their work looked good. This created connections I’m still in close contact with today.

$0

what the empty room cost - traded for Google reviews

Cold

most of the room were strangers I messaged first

Full

filled to the venue’s legal capacity cap

Connected

still in close contact with that room today

02 Demo night × v0 by Vercel

Co-hosted the v0 by Vercel demo night

A cafe and demo night with Vercel - the company behind Next.js and v0. I co-hosted it with Vercel’s Alli Pope and Pablo Stanley.

“Had so much fun hosting our v0 by Vercel cafe and demo night … with the amazing Pablo Stanley, Steve Gorski …”

Alli Pope ↗Vercel · on LinkedIn

+ more There are many more events I’ve hosted and co-hosted - this is just a snapshot. It’s something I do all the time.

The portfolio

My favorite software projects I built

This is just a small snapshot of some of my favorite software projects I built and shipped to real users. (And before AI coding agents were around!)

01

Cutback

cutback.io ↗

Built the world’s only job board that autofills your job applications.

  • Built an entire job board from scratch.
  • Built a scraper that scrapes tens of thousands of companies websites for job postings.
  • Built tech to allow users to auto-apply to jobs.

Tech Stack · AWS Lambda · AWS S3 · Postgres · Node.js · Python · React · JavaScript · TypeScript · etc.

View Website ↗
02

Showdown

eSports Platform

Built a service that would let video game players compete against each other for in-game items.

  • Players would trade their items for “credits” that they could then use to bet on their in-game abilities.
  • For a real life example, imagine challenging your friend to a 1v1 game of basketball for $20. Instead of basketball, it was a video game, and instead of cash, it was credits that could be redeemed for virtual items.
  • The platform handled all of the transactions, matchmaking, and dynamic server creation for the video game matches.

Tech Stack · Python · Flask · Postgres · Heroku · SourcePawn · etc.

Fanmade Video ↗ View Detailed Slideshow ↗
03

Soterra

$1M XPRIZE finalist

Developed a product for women’s safety that was a finalist at the United Nations in NYC.

  • Served as the technical lead from start to finish, helping build the entire product and manage the team.
  • Built an iOS and Android app with Bluetooth functionality to connect to our safety device.
  • Built an API and safety alert management systems.

Tech Stack · RedBear BLE · React Native · Java · Python · Flask · Twilio · etc.

View on XPrize.org ↗
04

StompzCraft

Where it started

What started out as a passion for Minecraft turned into a full-fledged business with over 1,000,000 unique players.

  • I started this server around the age of 13 and it exploded into a giant community of gamers.
  • This taught me a ton about business and computers. Ranging from SEO, managing multiple bare metal dedicated servers, hiring programmers, etc.
  • Served as my full-time job for many years.

+ more And many more projects - these are just the ones I most enjoy talking about.

Thanks for taking the time to read through my portfolio!

If you want to get in contact, feel free to reach out via LinkedIn!

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