Stephen Weber
Co-Owner at MBOA.dev
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarStephen Weber is a seasoned software engineer and co-owner of MBOA.dev with 19 years of experience building resilient web systems and user-facing interfaces from Kitchener, Ontario. He blends back-end rigor—demonstrated by contributions to Haskell's wai/Warp and Dhall's language tests improving parsing, error handling and type-checking—with front-end polish, having enhanced Ripple's client UI, federated logins, and telemetry resilience. His open-source work shows a pragmatic focus on robustness and edge-case correctness, not just features, and a comfort moving between languages and layers. As an operator-founder he pairs hands-on coding with product-minded configuration and deployment improvements, favoring simple, auditable solutions that survive real-world failures.
19 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (32)
javascript10
type-inference10
http10
dhall10
normalization10
angularjs10
configuration-language10
haskell10
test-automation10
testing9
unix9
web-application9
jquery9
parsing9
error-handling9
Programming languages (37)
Github contributions (5)
dhall-lang/dhall-lang
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
Maintainable configuration files
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:29 commits, 66 PRs, 28 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the `dhall-lang` repository by adding and modifying unit tests, focusing on normalization, type checking, type inference, and semantic hashing. Their work involved creating test cases to validate the correct behavior of the Dhall language's core features, including expressions, imports, and binary encoding, particularly related to normalization and type inference. They also addressed parser issues and refined existing tests for improved accuracy and performance.
configurationconfiguration-filesconfigdotfilesdhall
yesodweb/wai
Oct 2012 - Oct 2013
Haskell Web Application Interface
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 comment, 3 issues in 11 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the `wai` repository by enhancing the HTTP Accept header parsing and error handling within the Warp server. Their work included improving the specificity of media type parsing, adding test cases, and ensuring that the server provides a 500 response in case of an exception, rather than silently failing. This focused on improving the reliability and robustness of the web application server, addressing specific edge cases related to request handling. The user’s contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the server's resilience to errors and refining its core parsing logic.
webframeworkhaskellweb-applicationwebapp
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