Stephen Portanova
Co-Founder at Clarity CPG
United States
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Top SchoolStephen Portanova is a pragmatic Co-Founder and freelance Scala engineer with 12 years of experience building backend systems and full-stack features for consumer finance products. He has shipped high-impact work at scale—most recently developing checking and debit card capabilities for millions of Credit Karma users using Scala, Cats, Kafka, Thrift, and MySQL. As co-founder of Clarity CPG and a long-running contract engineer at Auctoritas, he blends entrepreneurial product sense with hands-on implementation across services and front-end needs. Comfortable across paradigms (he playfully signals fluency in Haskell, Scala, Objective‑C, and JavaScript), he brings both functional-programming rigor and pragmatic delivery. Based in the United States with a BS in Finance from Arizona State, he often pairs business domain insight with technical design to move products from concept to production. He is available for Scala and full-stack engagements and prefers work that balances architecture, reliability, and user-facing impact.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Finance, Bachelor of Science - BS Finance at Arizona State University
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Github Skills (81)
http10
websocket10
http-client10
streaming10
reactive10
akka10
http-server10
akka-http10
lists9
mention9
scala9
hashtag9
scala-native8
circleci7
jekyll7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sportanova/phratastic
Jul 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:113 commits in 1 month
sportanova/akka-http
Jun 2017 - Apr 2018
The Streaming-first HTTP server/module of Akka
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
scalahttp-serverstreamingakka
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