Stephen Hamer
Contractor at Self-employed
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolStephen Hamer is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 17 years of experience spanning systems, embedded and cloud operations. He founded Upverter and later served as VP of Engineering at Altium, combining product-led leadership with hands-on development across C/C++, C#, TypeScript and Python. Now a contractor based in Old Toronto, he focuses on electrical CAD, ERP integrations, and site reliability engineering for Linux-first environments. He has deep experience with low-level systems (H.264 encoder work, process control) as well as browser extension front-end work—contributing practical fixes to the popular web-scrobbler project. Comfortable leading teams or shipping compact, reliable code himself, he blends entrepreneurial grit with operational discipline. His background from Waterloo and long history across startups and product organizations gives him a rare mix of hardware-aware software insight and cloud-native engineering.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BaSC, Computer Engineering, BaSC, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (9)
debugging10
google-chrome-extension10
debug10
webextension10
javascript10
opera-extension10
chrome-extension10
browser-extension10
json9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
web-scrobbler/web-scrobbler
May 2012 - Sep 2012
Scrobble music all around the web!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of the web-scrobbler extension specifically focusing on the Jango.com connector. Their work involved implementing code to interact with the Jango player, capturing song information to pass it to the scrobbling service. Key contributions include fixes to correctly handle song durations, adapting to changes in the Jango player's JavaScript, and ensuring robust error handling. The user demonstrates skills in JavaScript and working with browser extension APIs to enhance the user experience of the extension.
scrobblewebextensionlastfmlibrefmlistenbrainz
shamer/dotfiles
Jul 2008 - Apr 2013
Contributions:110 commits in 4 years 9 months
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