Stephan Boyer
Engineering Manager at Notion
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephan Boyer is an engineering manager based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building distributed systems and developer tooling at companies including Notion, Google, and Airbnb. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps work—evidenced by significant contributions to the open-source toast project that containerizes development and CI environments—with people leadership and delivery ownership. His academic roots at MIT and research experience at CSAIL inform a thoughtful interest in homotopy type theory and rigorous system design. Colleagues describe him as an engineering lead "blessed with a fantastic team," reflecting a collaborative, coach-first management style. Stephan is pragmatic about shipping robust infrastructure while keeping developer experience front and center. He brings a rare combination of deep technical curiosity and sustained product-focused execution.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (11)
docker10
build-system10
rust10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
serde9
command-line-interface9
yaml8
parse8
parsing8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
stepchowfun/toast
Apr 2019 - Nov 2022
Containerize your development and continuous integration environments. 🥂
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:35 releases, 20 reviews, 781 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Stephan contributed significantly to the `toast` project, a containerized build system, focusing on core functionalities. They implemented a job parser and added checks for duplicate task names, indicating a focus on backend development. The user also refactored the command-line interface and restructured the tasks into a map, while building and integrating features, and included code to support the correct behavior of the `--shell` functionality for executing the containers and the underlying commands.
containersdevopscontainerizedev-environmentcontinuous
Tonire/netflixparty-chrome
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
A tool for synchronized Netflix consumption.
Contributions:53 commits in 3 months
golangsynchronizednetflixconsumption
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