Stephen Hallgren
Chief Technology Officer at Bumper
City of Albany, New York, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Hallgren is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO with over a decade of experience scaling product and engineering organizations from startup MVP to acquisition. As former CTO of Simplecast (acquired by SiriusXM) and Senior Director leading podcast products at SiriusXM, he blends product-first thinking with hands-on systems and API engineering. He runs |⫮| nonfractional, a studio that helps early-stage startups shape vision, architecture, and go-to-market readiness, and has served as a fractional (but intensely involved) CTO for multiple clients. A pragmatic backend and API contributor—evidenced by his work extending the DigitalOcean PHP client and adding test coverage—he’s comfortable shipping code and leading teams. Based in Albany, NY, he pairs technical leadership with an unconventional edge: ultrarunning and cycling discipline that informs his focus on endurance, incremental progress, and high-velocity execution.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Cedarville University
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Github Skills (14)
testing10
digitalocean-api10
php10
api10
apidoc10
api-client10
vue9
javascript9
foreach6
twitter-bootstrap6
laravel6
facebook6
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DigitalOceanPHP/Client
Nov 2016 - Apr 2017
DigitalOcean API v2 client for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 23 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on extending the DigitalOcean API client for PHP. They implemented new features, including the ability to set monitoring flags, support for volumes and tags when creating droplets, and the ability to filter droplets by tag name. Additionally, the user updated existing functionality, such as updating domain records and modifying specifications for droplet creation. They also wrote tests for these new features.
api-clientapiphpsdkphp7
simplecastapps/wordpress-plugin
Aug 2019 - Apr 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 years 8 months
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