Stephen Coulson
Ruby On Rails Developer at Alpha Omega
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolStephen Coulson is a seasoned Ruby on Rails developer with 11+ years of professional experience building everything from embedded systems and device drivers to cloud-hosted SaaS platforms. He has repeatedly taken on the hardest technical challenges—replatforming legacy Rails apps to modern stacks, designing a DAG-based menu data model, and salvaging enigmatic production bugs in both frontend frameworks and backend services. Comfortable in startups, large engineering organizations, and fully remote teams, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and architect-level decision-making. He has deep background in systems programming and hardware integration (embedded Linux, ONVIF, device drivers), which informs pragmatic engineering choices in web and distributed systems. An active open-source contributor and single-board-computer enthusiast, he brings curiosity and cross-domain fluency to product-focused development. Based in the Atlanta area, he’s known for turning complex, long-standing problems into maintainable, well-tested solutions.
11 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
41reputation
16kreached
1answer
5questions
Github Skills (23)
dlna10
ffmpeg10
java10
upnp9
server9
transcoding9
react9
angular9
libfdk-aac6
location6
google-maps6
vera6
href6
facebook6
javascript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sc3141/usethisurl
May 2016 - Jun 2020
Simplistic URL shortening service employing google appengine and ndb.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 1 month
appengineshorteningndburl-shorteningurl-shortener
sc3141/homebridge-plugin-vera
Dec 2019 - Jun 2020
Homebridge plugin to support control of Vera home automation devices via HomeKit applications
Contributions:18 commits, 28 PRs, 34 pushes in 6 months
libfdk-aachomekitsirihome-automationautomation
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