Stephen Fuhry
Co-founder And CTO at TPA Stream
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Fuhry is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building and scaling SaaS platforms as Co-founder and CTO of TPA Stream. He blends hands-on architecture and implementation with customer-centric product thinking to simplify complex health benefits and pre-tax account administration for third-party administrators, plans, and financial institutions. Earlier roles include leading integrations and mentoring teams at OnShift, where he helped transform a small shop into an enterprise-grade SaaS provider. An active open-source contributor, he has improved server implementations and testing for projects like Zend Framework and optimized SQLAlchemy versioning for large datasets, reflecting a pragmatic focus on maintainability and performance. Based in Cleveland, his background in philosophy informs a collaborative, user-first approach to solving product problems.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Philosophy, Bachelor's Degree Philosophy at John Carroll UniversityHigh School, High School at Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin SchoolCertificate of Completion, Certificate of Completion at Borromeo Seminary
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
jqgrid10
unit-testing10
python10
css10
sass10
zend-framework10
php10
sqlalchemy10
json-rpc9
ip-address9
jquery9
django9
flask-sqlalchemy9
flask9
pip9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kvesteri/sqlalchemy-continuum
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
Versioning extension for SQLAlchemy.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the backend aspects of the SQLAlchemy extension. They improved memory usage for large tables and addressed issues related to excluded properties within the versioning system. Additionally, they added and enhanced tests, particularly focusing on column and relationship exclusions. The user also updated the setup file to include Python 3.6 and removed Python 3.3 from the Travis build configuration, demonstrating a focus on maintaining and expanding the library's compatibility and functionality.
versioningpythonsqlalchemy
zendframework/zendframework
Sep 2011 - Oct 2011
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:9 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily worked on improving the Zend Framework's JSON RPC server implementation and related testing. Their contributions involved removing redundant code based on the JSON RPC 2.0 specification and implementing unit tests to validate these changes. They also updated code to align with Zend\Code refactoring, and addressed use namespace issues.
zendzend-frameworkphpframeworkmodular
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