Stephen Potenza
Senior Software Development Manager at CivicPlus
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Potenza is a seasoned software leader with 15 years building and scaling web applications, now leading the Streamline CMS engineering team at CivicPlus after serving as Head of Engineering at Streamline. He brings deep full-stack expertise across Ruby on Rails, TypeScript/React, GraphQL and AWS, with hands-on experience converting legacy codebases and shipping high-availability features for large customer bases. Stephen has run engineering teams and product initiatives for SaaS aimed at local governments and high-traffic email platforms, and he’s contributed backend work to notable open-source Rails tooling such as the bootstrap_form gem. Comfortable alternating between coding and strategy, he pairs pragmatic TDD and CI practices with a founder’s instincts from co-founding a direct-to-consumer startup. Based in Sacramento, he’s known for shepherding migrations and reliability improvements that keep user-facing services resilient at scale.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
UMass Lowell
Github Skills (7)
ruby10
form-builder10
ruby-rails10
rails10
testing10
bootstrap9
bootstra9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bootstrap-ruby/bootstrap_form
Jan 2012 - Nov 2015
Official repository of the bootstrap_form gem, a Rails form builder that makes it super easy to create beautiful-looking forms using Bootstrap 5.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 264 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Stephen implemented initial tests and a form builder for a Rails form builder gem. The code changes involved creating test files and implementing the form builder logic. The contributions focused on creating text fields, password fields, text areas, selects, and actions. The changes updated the error message and added helper text below input fields.
bootstrap4form-builderrailsrubybootstrap-5
getstreamline/menu
Oct 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 1 push in 4 years
behaviorsmenuaccessiblemenu-navigationresponsive
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