Stephen Hanson
Software Engineer at Stripe
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Hanson is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building web and mobile products, currently at Stripe after a long tenure leading engineering at thoughtbot. He combines hands-on full‑stack work—especially React, React Native, Rails, and Node.js—with people leadership, product strategy, and business development in a consultancy setting. Stephen has led greenfield projects and scaled systems for startups and enterprises alike, from architecting a reservation platform that handled 250k bookings to improving e-commerce conversions at a $3B company. He mentors teams and drives internal initiatives while remaining an active practitioner who ships client-facing features. Based in Austin, he brings a mix of engineering rigor from a Computer Engineering background and practical tutoring experience teaching algorithms and systems. A pragmatic problem-solver, Stephen often bridges design and engineering to turn fuzzy ideas into production-quality apps.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering Minor in Math, BS Computer Engineering Minor in Math at Texas A&M University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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tinymce
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spring-mvc
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user-input
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git
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Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
testing10
html10
react-native-config10
angularjs10
unify10
svelte10
css10
web-components10
bootstrap-components10
javascript-objects10
frontend10
ruby10
cordova-plugin10
activerecord10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtbot/fishery
Jan 2019 - Jul 2022
A library for setting up JavaScript objects as test data
Contributions:12 releases, 17 reviews, 105 commits in 3 years 6 months
test-datasettingtestingjavascriptmocha
stevehanson/shanson-co
Dec 2014 - Mar 2022
My Personal Website
Contributions:208 commits, 8 PRs, 158 pushes in 7 years 4 months
reactnextjs
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