Stephen Houston
Software Engineering Manager at Bread Financial
Clinton, Mississippi, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Houston is a Software Engineering Manager with 15 years of experience leading teams and delivering production-grade systems from Mississippi. Currently at Bread Financial, he blends managerial leadership with hands-on engineering—previous roles include software development at Ardan Labs and data services leadership for the Mississippi State Auditor. He is an active open-source contributor, notably improving the cross-platform Go GUI toolkit Fyne with practical UI and scrolling enhancements that reflect a focus on usability across desktop and mobile. His background in Management Information Systems gives him a strong grounding in bridging technical solutions with business needs and auditability. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he brings public-sector rigor and private-sector delivery speed to complex software projects. Outside of management he stays technical, contributing code that smooths front-end interactions and cross-platform consistency.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Clinton Junior High SchoolRidgeland High SchoolBachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Management Information Systems, General at Delta State University
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Github Skills (8)
fyne10
go10
cross-platform10
toolkits10
windows-gui10
golang9
mobile8
mobile-development8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fyne-io/fyne
Mar 2019 - Oct 2020
Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:99 reviews, 68 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Stephen's contributions focused on improving the Fyne cross-platform GUI toolkit. They implemented unfocus functionality in the driver, and added features to scroll functionality to include horizontal scrolling and mobile scrolling. The user also fixed an issue in the Fyne package creation of desktop files and made multiple changes to the fixed grid layout minimum size calculations.
golanglinuxguigotoolkit
okratitan/fyne
Aug 2019 - Mar 2025
Cross platform GUI in Go based on Material Design
Contributions:143 pushes, 28 branches in 5 years 7 months
golanglinuxguigofyne
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