Stephen Van Dahm
Freelance Software Development at Self-Employed
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Van Dahm is a seasoned full-stack software developer with 11+ years delivering web applications and APIs across Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, and PHP/Symfony stacks. Based in Minneapolis, he blends hands-on freelance work with enterprise experience at UnitedHealth Group and Nagios, contributing to cloud and API platforms using AWS, Terraform, Kafka, and Postgres. Stephen has a strong background in scaling high-traffic sites and operations tooling from his time at CaringBridge and in R&D roles, and he frequently pairs application development with infrastructure automation (Chef, Ansible, OpenShift). Comfortable across Unix/BSD/Linux environments, he moves easily between frontend concerns (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) and backend data systems, and he keeps an exploratory, practical approach to side projects — “a few odds and ends” on GitHub reflecting curiosity rather than a single flagship repo.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of South Carolina Upstate
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
member9
elearning7
redirector7
civicrm-extension7
wordpress7
creator7
popen6
mosaic6
django-models6
screen-shot6
open-source6
linux6
credit-card6
ruby6
django6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tcmaker/tcmaker-theme
Feb 2019 - Mar 2021
Twin Cities Maker Wordpress Theme
Contributions:1 review, 48 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 1 month
makerwordpresswordpress-themefoundationtwin
teamfomps/toybox
Jul 2017 - Aug 2021
Jack Pearson's website
Contributions:6 PRs, 46 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 1 month
pearsonjack
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