Stephen Wilson
Sr. Software Developer at OpenText
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Wilson is a senior software developer based in Kitchener, Ontario with roughly a decade of hands-on experience across web and backend systems, currently advancing platform tooling at OpenText. He brings a strong Ruby on Rails background from long-term work on test and internal tooling, and practical Node/Sails.js server experience building backends and managing staging/production infrastructure. A full-stack contributor to the popular Backstage open-source project, he has focused on developer-experience improvements like CLI asset handling and searchable TechDocs, showing attention to usability and discoverability. Stephen combines production-grade systems work with operational responsibilities and a history of migrating dev environments (Vagrant/VMs) and securing application traffic, highlighting both engineering and sysadmin strengths. Colleagues value his pragmatic approach to shipping reliable features and improving developer workflows.
3 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
OSSD, OSSD at Orangeville District Secondary SchoolComputer Programmer/Analyst Diploma, Computer Science, Computer Programmer/Analyst Diploma, Computer Science at Georgian College
English
Github Skills (10)
portal10
backstage10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
web-developer10
typescript-types10
react9
cli9
front-end-development8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 7 PRs, 56 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to improving the Backstage developer portal's functionality and usability. Their work involved modifying the command-line interface (CLI) by adding support for `.ico` file types, updating asset definitions. They also addressed search capabilities within the TechDocs plugin by allowing searching by title. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing the developer experience and content discoverability within the platform.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
CptnFizzbin/backstage
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
Contributions:84 pushes, 15 branches in 11 months
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