Ed Staub
Software Engineer
Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEd Staub is a seasoned software engineer with over 35 years of hands-on experience who now focuses on React/TypeScript single-page applications while drawing on deep enterprise Java and backend design expertise. He excels at translating fuzzy business requirements into scalable designs spanning database schemas to service layers, and is particularly strong at performance troubleshooting and extracting insights from messy data via clear visualizations. His background includes embedded and safety-critical systems, large-scale telecom modeling at Ericsson, and leadership roles building SaaS products and open-data tooling. A pragmatic collaborator, he designs for testability, quantifies trade-offs for stakeholders, and swiftly adopts new technologies—a skill reflected in contributions to the well-known Open States scrapers project. Based in Manchester, NH, he pairs a mathematical foundation with a rare blend of low-level systems thinking and modern front-end craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics at Colgate University
Stackoverflow
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bit-manipulation
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java
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scala
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eclipse
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unit-testing
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mocking
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Github Skills (27)
e-government10
debug10
python10
open-government10
scraper10
java10
g10
bit-manipulation9
unit-testing9
scala9
data-processing9
mocking9
mockito9
ant9
eclipse9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openstates/openstates-scrapers
Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
source for Open States scrapers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 62 PRs, 232 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily focused on fixing bugs and enhancing the scraper functionality for various states within the Open States project. Their contributions included fixing data issues, like unescaping ampersands and handling duplicate records, and also updating documentation related to API keys and data subdirectories. Furthermore, they added and updated session information for multiple states. This involved direct modifications to the Python scraping scripts.
scraperpythongovernmentscrapers
estaub/openstates
Nov 2017 - Oct 2019
source for Open States' scrapers
Contributions:66 pushes, 85 branches in 1 year 11 months
scraperscrapers
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