Steph Ango

Steph Ango is the Chief Executive Officer of Obsidian, a bootstrapped software company developing local-first, privacy-focused knowledge management and note-taking applications. Prior to his current executive role, he founded Lumi.com, a shopping comparison platform that successfully participated in the Y Combinator Winter 2015 accelerator batch. At Obsidian, Ango directs product development and design initiatives, scaling the platform to support a substantial global user base while cultivating an extensive third-party plugin ecosystem hosted on GitHub. Operating online under the pseudonym Kepano, he maintains a highly active presence across decentralized networks like Mastodon and publishes regular technical writing on his personal domain. Throughout his career as a product-focused founder, he has consistently emphasized the importance of independent software infrastructure. Ango's current professional focus centers on advancing productivity applications that strictly prioritize user privacy, local data storage, and open developer ecosystems.