Stephen Grider
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Grider is a San Francisco–based Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic and a full‑stack engineer and educator with 12 years of experience building web, mobile, backend, and blockchain applications. A prolific Udemy instructor and consultant (via RallyCoding), he’s authored many hands‑on companion repos that span TypeScript, React/Redux, Node, GraphQL, Elixir, Docker, and Ethereum smart contracts—often shipping both frontend, backend, tests, and deployment automation. He now focuses on practical AI developer education for Claude, applying the same no‑fluff, example‑driven pedagogy that helped him reach over 90,000 engineers. His work shows attention to testing and production readiness (Puppeteer, unit tests, CI) and occasional forays into ML starter kits and dApp tooling. Trained as a structural engineer, he brings a methodical, systems‑oriented mindset to architecture and developer tooling.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (102)
mobile-development10
expressjs10
youtube-api10
testing10
authentication10
ganache10
render10
passportjs10
smart-contracts10
jsx10
integration-testing10
mongoose10
javascript10
solidity10
gulp10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
StephenGrider/MongoCasts
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Companion Repo for The Complete Developer's Guide to MongoDB
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:88 commits, 3 pushes, 104 branches in 1 month
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to backend development within a MongoDB context, focusing on building and testing user-related functionalities. Their work included creating, reading, updating, and deleting user records, along with implementing validation and subdocument features. The commits show a progression through database interactions, including adding find, update, and delete operations, demonstrating proficiency with the Mongoose library. The user also implemented tests for each operation.
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StephenGrider/AdvancedNodeComplete
Feb 2018 - May 2020
*Completed* code for a course on Udemy.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:253 commits, 5 pushes, 21 branches in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the development of a blog application, working on both front-end and back-end components. They implemented the user interface for blog creation, review, and display using React, Redux, and Materialize. Additionally, the user integrated back-end functionalities, including API endpoints, database interactions, and authentication using Passport.js with Google OAuth. The commits showcase a focus on the integration of front-end and back-end logic for a fully functional blog application.
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