Stephan Huber
Managing Partner And Web Developer at Factorial GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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SeniorStephan Huber is a managing partner and web developer based in Hamburg with 15 years of experience designing and delivering production web applications. He leads Factorial GmbH while remaining hands-on in back-end development, focusing on API integrations and maintainable code. His open-source contributions include substantive fixes and feature additions to a PHP Jira REST client—adding custom field support and improving assignable user and status retrieval—demonstrating attention to interoperability and real-world tooling needs. Colleagues rely on him to refactor legacy codebases into cleaner, more testable implementations that reduce bugs and simplify future enhancements. He combines entrepreneurial leadership with practical engineering, often bridging client requirements and technical delivery himself. Those who work with him appreciate that he still dives into bug fixes and API edge cases rather than delegating every technical detail.
15 years of coding experience
German, English, French
Github Skills (14)
jira-cli10
php10
jira10
jira-rest-api10
json-serialization9
apidoc9
object-oriented-programming9
api9
issue-tracking9
abtest7
ui-testing7
ab-testing7
testing7
unit-testing7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
lesstif/php-jira-rest-client
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
PHP classes interact Jira with the REST API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Stephan primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the PHP Jira REST client. Their work involved fixing bugs, such as issues with missing comments and incorrect setter behavior when handling issue types. They also enhanced the functionality by adding support for custom fields, including custom fields in searches, and implementing new methods for getting assignable users and statuses. Additionally, the user refactored existing code, improving overall code quality and maintainability.
apiphpjirajira-clientinteract
factorial-io/fac_gin
May 2021 - Aug 2024
Factorials branding for the gin admin theme
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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