Stephen Rider
Applications Developer
Palatine, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Rider is an Applications Developer with 11 years of hands-on experience building user-friendly web applications, databases, and responsive sites using PHP, MySQL, CSS and legacy-to-modern migrations. Based in Palatine, Illinois, he rebuilt a critical failing system in-house to save his employer $50K and continues to modernize ASP pages into PHP 8 while improving mobile UX. He combines technical delivery with strong communication skills—translating complex concepts for business audiences, gathering data-driven feedback, and driving product improvements. Stephen also oversees cybersecurity practices at his company, implementing practical controls like password management to protect sensitive data. His background in technical writing, public speaking, and earlier work automating Office workflows and Access databases gives him a rare mix of front-end, back-end and tooling fluency. Colleagues rely on him as a pragmatic problem solver who reduces external dependencies by turning failing systems into maintainable, secure solutions.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, English & Theatre, Bachelor of Arts - BA, English & Theatre at Tulane University
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Github Skills (200)
epub10
ebook-reader10
uploads10
ubuntu-touch10
plupload10
php-library10
cpp10
extractor10
spreadsheet10
xmp10
mupdf10
topojson10
xlsx10
ods10
php10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
strider72/multiblog
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
strider72/log-deprecated-calls
May 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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