Stephen Ostrow
VP, Engineering & Co-Founder at CoachMePlus
New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Ostrow is a seasoned engineering leader and co-founder with 15 years of experience building and shipping web applications and SaaS products from the stack to the team. As VP of Engineering at CoachMePlus he runs engineering, budgets, and delivery while enforcing best practices like unit testing and agile processes, and he has deep PHP backend expertise in Symfony, Doctrine and Drupal. He’s an active open-source contributor with notable backend work on Mautic (marketing automation) and SuiteCRM, focusing on integrations (Salesforce), caching, API fixes and stability improvements. Stephen’s background includes hands-on implementation of complex systems—custom CMS, e-commerce, video tooling and RESTful APIs—and early ops experience running servers on EC2 and Mac OS X, which gives him an unusually full-stack operational perspective for a senior engineering executive.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University at BuffaloW.C. Mepham High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
caching10
debug10
apidoc10
package-development10
plugin-development10
crm10
suitecrm10
php10
api10
drupal-module10
marketing-automation9
interaction8
database8
workflow-engine8
databases8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mautic/mautic
Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
Mautic: Open Source Marketing Automation Software.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 15 PRs, 88 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the backend of the Mautic marketing automation software. Their work focused on integrating Salesforce, including adding features to update contact owners and caching API responses for improved performance. The user also addressed bugs and made improvements to the caching mechanism and documentation to improve code quality and developer experience. They also made changes to error messages and form handling within the application.
marketing-automationmauticphpautomationsoftware-automation
salesagility/SuiteCRM
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
SuiteCRM - Open source CRM for the world
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 24 PRs, 127 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the SuiteCRM back-end. They addressed issues related to API paths, report exports, and undefined language strings. Furthermore, the user made changes to improve date handling and corrected inconsistencies in module deployment processes, indicating a focus on stability and usability within the CRM's core functionality. The commits suggest a strong understanding of the SuiteCRM codebase and its underlying PHP framework.
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