Stephen Fuqua
Director Software Engineering at Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Fuqua is a Director of Software Engineering based in Austin with over a decade of hands-on experience leading full-stack teams and delivering interoperable data platforms for K–12 education. He combines architecture, engineering, and Agile/DevOps coaching to manage the Ed-Fi Data Standard and its related software, driving incremental delivery, TDD/BDD, and CI practices across distributed teams. His background spans Microsoft stacks, .NET microservices, Docker, Node.js, and ALM toolchains, with a track record of migrating legacy systems, improving deployment pipelines, and implementing identity and messaging solutions. Stephen pairs technical leadership with strong business communication and documentation skills, regularly serving as ScrumMaster and informal coach to uplift engineering practices. Outside of work he is an active conservation and interfaith volunteer and avid birdwatcher, a detail that reflects his patient, observational approach to complex systems.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MA Physics, MA Physics at The University of Texas at Austin
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (179)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
stephenfuqua/Ed-Fi-ODS-Implementation
Jun 2020 - Apr 2024
This repository hosts the end-user applications and extensions for the Ed-Fi Operational Data Store (ODS) and Ed-Fi ODS API.
Contributions:4 PRs, 122 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 10 months
apiend-userodshostsdata-store
Ed-Fi-Alliance-OSS/Ed-Fi-Actions
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Ed-Fi Github Action Security
Contributions:108 reviews, 97 PRs, 105 pushes in 3 years 1 month
security
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