Stephen Howard is a senior full-stack software developer with two decades of experience delivering web applications for businesses and nonprofits, currently building scalable systems at ZipRecruiter. He blends deep back-end engineering—modernizing legacy payment platforms into Docker- and Kubernetes-based microservices—with hands-on UI/UX work, accessibility improvements, and pragmatic business strategy. A longtime founder and solo developer, he created and commercialized his own CMS and DIY hosting service, giving him rare end-to-end product and ops perspective. He’s comfortable managing HIPAA-scale data stores and leading small teams to modernize complex codebases while keeping an eye on deployment best practices. Based in Monmouth, Oregon, he brings a detail-oriented approach that balances legacy system pragmatism with containerized, cloud-native modernization.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
web-browser front end for the community-calendar project
Contributions:101 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 11 months
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Stephen Howard - Senior Software Developer at ZipRecruiter