Stefan Clark
Co-Founder & Creative Human
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Clark is a creative leader and builder with 11 years of experience blending design, content strategy, and hands-on technical work from Chicago. As Co-Founder of MXML Creative and former Creative Director and Head of Content at Walgreens, he has led cross-disciplinary teams to translate brand vision into measurable work across large enterprise and startup contexts. His background in visual communications and music (BFA, Loyola Chicago) informs a distinctive, culture-first approach to product and content. Unusually for a creative executive, Stefan contributes to open-source engineering—improving protocol decoding and encoder tests for the widely used Traccar GPS project—demonstrating an aptitude for device communication and backend problem solving. He’s known for turning cultural insight into practical creative systems that scale.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Visual Communications & Music, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Visual Communications & Music at Loyola University Chicago
Github Skills (11)
gps10
traccar10
javas10
gps-tracking10
protocols10
decode10
decoder10
java10
implement10
decoding10
testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
traccar/traccar
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Traccar GPS Tracking System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 12 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Stefan primarily focused on enhancing the `Xexun2ProtocolDecoder` and `Xexun2ProtocolEncoder` within the Traccar GPS tracking system. Their work involved debugging and improving the decoding logic for specific GPS data packets, including modifications to how satellite data and location information are parsed. Additionally, the user added a unit test suite for the decoder and implemented the initial code for an encoder to transmit data. These changes suggest a focus on device communication protocols.
gps-trackingtraccargpsjava
stefanclark/osTicket
May 2018 - Apr 2019
The osTicket open source ticketing system official project repository, for versions 1.8 and later
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
ticketing-systemosticketticketing
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