Spencer Oberstadt
Developer at Planning Center
Village of Plover, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSpencer Oberstadt is a pragmatic full-stack developer with 14 years of experience building and maintaining large-scale Ruby on Rails applications, currently contributing at Planning Center. He has led engineering teams, designed payment integrations (PayPal, Google Pay), prototyped microservices, and resolved long-standing performance issues while mentoring junior engineers. Spencer values practical, user-focused solutions over chasing trends—preferring the right tool for the job—and his open-source work on Errbit demonstrates attention to reliable error reporting and robust notifier behavior. He’s experienced with Docker, AWS deployments, Node.js Lambdas, and developer tooling—having built GitHub bots and CLI tools to streamline CI/CD and workflows. Based in Plover, Wisconsin, Spencer pairs hands-on coding with a systems mindset that seeks to make software genuinely helpful to real people.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer and Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer and Information Systems at University of Wisconsin-Stevens PointNew London High School
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Github Skills (20)
error-reporting10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
apidoc10
rspec10
rails10
ruby10
api10
airbrake9
error-detection9
error-log9
hyperlink6
ruby-on-rails6
apache-flex6
android6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
errbit/errbit
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
The open source error catcher that's Airbrake API compliant
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Spencer primarily focused on enhancing the error reporting functionality of the Errbit application. They improved the API route to handle both GET and POST requests for the notifier. Their contributions included adding tests for the API route, enhancing the JavaScript notifier by adding support for the app version and improving the transmission of error stack information. Further enhancements included adding app version details to email notifications, and the addition of tests for keeping old versions of the app.
apicatchererror-monitoringcompliantairbrake
CruGlobal/siebel_donations
Dec 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 review, 14 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 11 months
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