Stephen Coakley
Staff Software Engineer at Acquia
Janesville, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Coakley is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in distributed backend architectures, APIs, data persistence, and asynchronous programming. Comfortable across Rust, C#, and Java, he favors Rust for systems work and has contributed to notable open-source projects like curl-rust (improving libcurl bindings and TLS/DNS options) and the Fish shell framework’s build/release tooling. At Acquia he progressed from developer to staff engineer, bringing a careful, analytical approach to complex problems and a preference for informed collaboration or autonomous work. A self-taught programmer who teaches himself new tools in spare time, Stephen pairs a methodical engineering mindset with a creative appreciation for the craft of software. He avoids frontend JavaScript and cryptocurrency roles, and outside work he blends interests in faith, gaming, and music with sustained open-source contribution.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
English
Github Skills (23)
ss10
ssl10
scripting10
sslv310
libcurl10
cicd10
automation10
script10
sh10
automations10
rust10
shell10
devops10
github-ci9
cargo9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish
Sep 2015 - Jun 2019
The Fish Shell Framework
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 99 commits, 148 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes for the "oh-my-fish" project. Their contributions include fixing Travis CI integration, refactoring the installer for improved maintainability and user interaction, and implementing update channels to enable release versioning. They also made changes to improve the reliability and robustness of the project's update mechanisms.
bashoh-my-fishfishshell-frameworkfishprompt
alexcrichton/curl-rust
Dec 2017 - Sep 2022
Rust bindings to libcurl
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 34 reviews, 54 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the development of the `curl-rust` library, focusing on enhancing its functionality and improving its integration with libcurl. Their work included adding accessors for easy handles attached to multi-handles, implementing methods for unpausing connections, and introducing new Cargo features for static linking to libcurl and libssl. They also added support for MesaLink as a TLS backend and exposed DNS-over-HTTP options.
rustrust-bindingslibcurlcurl
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