Paul Stiverson
Senior Software Engineer at Secure Bearing LLC
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Stiverson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications, specializing in Django and Django REST Framework. He leans heavily into backend architecture, cloud-native deployments on AWS, and automated CI/CD to minimize manual ops work. Paul has founded and led engineering teams, driving SaaS products from POC to multi-tenant production while emphasizing compassionate leadership and developer growth. He single-handedly developed a financial planning web app with a robust, low-maintenance deployment pipeline and has deep experience integrating diverse network management APIs for regulatory and operational solutions. An active contributor to the Hypothesis property-based testing project, he extended the library to support Django forms and model fields—bringing stronger testing tools to the Django ecosystem. His mechanical engineering background informs a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to solving complex software and infrastructure problems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (12)
property-based-testing10
python10
hy10
django10
testing10
file-upload9
fuzzing9
amazon-eks6
kubernetes6
svelte6
mp46
iphone6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
HypothesisWorks/hypothesis
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
The property-based testing library for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 28 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the `hypothesis` library, a property-based testing tool for Python. Their work involved implementing strategies for generating data for Django forms and fields, enabling property-based testing for Django applications. The commits show the development of strategies for various Django form and model field types, alongside tests to validate the generated data. This involved changes to the core testing library to support Django-specific features.
property-based-testingpythonincrementaltestingfuzzing
thismatters/django-operator
Dec 2021 - May 2023
A kubernetes operator for Django + Celery + Redis + django-celery-beat built with kopf.
Contributions:10 PRs, 189 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 5 months
pythonrediskopfdjangocelery-redis
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