Stef Dunlap
Staff Software Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolStef Dunlap is a Staff Software Engineer based in Old Toronto with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems and guiding engineering teams at organizations like Wikimedia Foundation and Pivotal. He blends hands-on engineering, ops knowledge, and people leadership from roles ranging from software engineering manager to independent contractor, with a consistent focus on CI/CD, TDD, and pragmatic Agile practices. A strong academic foundation in computer science (Purdue) and an unusual side interest in hexaflexagons hint at a taste for elegant, playful problem-solving. Certified Canadian and comfortable across startups and large foundations, he excels at translating product needs into maintainable, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Non-Matriculated, Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies, 4.0, Non-Matriculated, Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies, 4.0 at University of CincinnatiBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer and Information Sciences, General, 3.9, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer and Information Sciences, General, 3.9 at Purdue University
German
Github Skills (200)
minecraft10
vim-plugin10
ubuntu10
saveas10
weechat10
linux10
react-component10
html10
shell10
cli10
scheme10
css-modules10
filesaver10
flake10
react10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
kindrowboat/springboard
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
a server and client implementing Spring '83 written in golang
Contributions:13 releases, 47 commits, 45 pushes in 1 month
golangspring83
motevets/hexflex
Mar 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:64 pushes, 14 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 11 months
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