Stephen Buchanan
Full Stack Engineer at Reaktor
Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolStephen Buchanan is a pragmatic full stack engineer with 13 years of experience building creative, interactive digital experiences and physical-digital installations from concept to production. Based in Haarlem, Netherlands, he combines a background in journalism and computer science with hands-on roles leading interactive design, creative technology, and product-focused engineering at agencies and startups. Stephen excels at rapidly learning new frameworks, prototyping experiments, and asking the right questions to turn ambiguous briefs into shipping systems—often for events, retail activations, and experiential campaigns. He founded a tech brand within Mann Made Media to commercialize event-tech products and now brings that maker mentality to his role at Reaktor. Known for solving hard problems across the full stack, he blends editorial craft, UX sensitivity, and technical leadership in multidisciplinary teams.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Theodor HerzlB.Journ TV Journalism Computer Science English Literature, B.Journ TV Journalism Computer Science English Literature at Rhodes University
English, Dutch, Afrikaans, French
Stackoverflow
396reputation
48kreached
15answers
8questions
Github Skills (200)
threejs10
proxy10
interpreter10
state-machine10
computer-vision10
oculus10
statechart10
http-proxy10
audio10
aframe10
omxplayer10
nat10
tunnel10
reverse-proxy10
javascript10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
RandomStudio/tether-lidar2d-consolidation
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:85 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
anselanza/parse-strings-in-object
Feb 2018 - Jul 2022
Convert string values in JS object to boolean and numbers
Contributions:60 commits, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 4 years 5 months
jsgulp-pluginstringjavascriptnodejs
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