Schaffer Stewart
Software Engineer Mentor (Part Time) at Formation
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSchaffer Stewart is a software engineer and part-time mentor based in Raleigh, NC, with nine years of experience building user-facing products and leading engineering teams. He has driven product launches and developer velocity at startups like Catch and Fountain Life, architecting backend services, maintenance systems (Temporal), and Terraform providers while owning on-call reliability and incident response. As a mentor at Formation he has coached cohorts on algorithms, data structures, and system design, helping place over 60 fellows into tech roles. His background spans full-stack work—from web scrapers and Drupal modules to Python genomics pipelines and Go Terraform providers—demonstrating comfort across languages and operational tooling. Notably, he has a track record of reducing manual toil and costs (e.g., lowering AWS spend by 70% and cutting permission errors by 90%) and translating complex domain needs into practical, maintainable systems. Practical, hands-on, and people-focused, he blends technical leadership with a knack for operational automation and developer enablement.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, General Education, Associate’s Degree, General Education at Alamance Community College
English
Github Skills (64)
candidate10
voting10
visible9
aws-lambda9
react9
serverless8
serverless-framework8
aws8
azure-functions8
finance8
lambda8
nodejs7
dashboard7
aws-dynamodb7
sam7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SchaeStewart/nc-campaign-finance-data-cleaning
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:47 commits, 9 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 months
codeforgso/GoVote
Aug 2017 - Sep 2020
Local voter registration and election candidate application.
Contributions:1 review, 166 commits, 92 PRs in 3 years 1 month
reactcandidateregistrationelectionvoting
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