Stephen Anderson
Senior Software Engineer at Shop-Ware
Friendswood, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Anderson is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience specializing in Ruby on Rails, currently shaping integrations and architecture at Shop-Ware. He has driven high-impact projects—from an 800% backend performance improvement and preserving over $100k MRR by fixing financial calculations to designing an OAuth2 abstraction that streamlines future third-party integrations. Comfortable leading teams and projects, he serves as backup Engineering Team Lead and has introduced contract testing and robust error-handling patterns to prevent infinite job retries. He’s also contributed backend improvements to a volunteer management system (rubyforgood/casa), enhancing API JSON handling and data integrity. With a background in industrial control systems and church leadership, he pairs disciplined engineering rigor with practical operational and people-management experience.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Applied Sciences - AAS, Process Technology, Associate of Applied Sciences - AAS, Process Technology at Alvin Community CollegeCertificate, Software Engineering, Certificate, Software Engineering at Flatiron School
Github Skills (12)
activerecord10
ruby-rails10
rails10
postgresql10
ruby10
apidoc9
api9
json8
testing8
dockers7
casa7
docker7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rubyforgood/casa
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Volunteer management system for nonprofit CASA, which serves foster youth in counties across America.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Stephen focused on modifying the backend logic of the volunteer management system. They removed a deprecated column from the database schema and updated associated models. They also refactored the case assignment controller to enhance its functionality to accept and handle JSON requests and added corresponding tests. This work likely improves the system's data integrity and API interaction capabilities.
servesyouthr4gmanagement-systemcasa
stephenandersondev/stephenandersondev.github.io
Oct 2020 - May 2022
My personal portfolio website.
Contributions:41 commits, 4 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 7 months
personal-portfolio-websitereactnextjs
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