Stephen Grider
Member Of Technical Staff at mPATH
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Grider is a seasoned full-stack software engineer and educator with 12 years of hands-on experience building web, mobile, blockchain, and tooling projects from San Francisco. After a long run as a prolific Udemy instructor (helping over 1.5M students), he joined Anthropic to create practical developer-focused AI tutorials and tooling for Claude, applying the same project-driven teaching style to AI. His open-source work spans React, Redux, Node, GraphQL, TypeScript, Docker, Elixir, Solidity, and testing automation—often providing complete course companion repos that demonstrate end-to-end app development and deployment. He’s comfortable across the stack: server-side rendering, authentication and payments, smart contracts and web3 UX, and React Native mobile interfaces. Notably, his repos include production-ready examples that integrate OAuth, Stripe, Redis/Postgres, and CI/testing practices, reflecting a focus on shipping real, maintainable projects rather than toy code. With a BS in Structural Engineering, he brings a pragmatic, example-first teaching approach that turns complex concepts into usable, well-tested code.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (102)
mobile-development10
expressjs10
youtube-api10
testing10
authentication10
ganache10
render10
passportjs10
smart-contracts10
jsx10
integration-testing10
mongoose10
javascript10
solidity10
gulp10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
StephenGrider/MongoCasts
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Companion Repo for The Complete Developer's Guide to MongoDB
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:88 commits, 3 pushes, 104 branches in 1 month
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to backend development within a MongoDB context, focusing on building and testing user-related functionalities. Their work included creating, reading, updating, and deleting user records, along with implementing validation and subdocument features. The commits show a progression through database interactions, including adding find, update, and delete operations, demonstrating proficiency with the Mongoose library. The user also implemented tests for each operation.
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StephenGrider/AdvancedNodeComplete
Feb 2018 - May 2020
*Completed* code for a course on Udemy.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:253 commits, 5 pushes, 21 branches in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the development of a blog application, working on both front-end and back-end components. They implemented the user interface for blog creation, review, and display using React, Redux, and Materialize. Additionally, the user integrated back-end functionalities, including API endpoints, database interactions, and authentication using Passport.js with Google OAuth. The commits showcase a focus on the integration of front-end and back-end logic for a fully functional blog application.
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