Stephen Young
Software Engineering Manager at Zumba
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Young is a pragmatic software engineering manager with 13 years of experience building web applications and games, currently leading engineering at Zumba from Florida. He brings hands-on expertise in Node.js and PHP and a history of shipping HTML5/JavaScript games and social experiences at Jogonaut. Stephen combines team leadership with operational skills—he’s managed AWS EC2/RDS, instituted near-daily continuous deployments, and led small, effective teams through fast iterations. His open-source contributions include practical fixes and middleware refactors to the BottleJS dependency-injection library, reflecting attention to reliability and developer ergonomics. Colleagues know him for continuously evolving his skillset and for balancing product-minded engineering with maintainable code. He thrives on turning iterative improvements into production-ready systems that scale for both entertainment and enterprise use.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Johnsonville High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
cakephp10
container10
middleware10
javascript10
jquery10
php10
dependency-injection10
mysql9
checkbox9
ajax9
unit-testing9
if-statement9
foreach9
css9
css-selectors9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
young-steveo/bottlejs
Sep 2014 - Aug 2022
A powerful dependency injection micro container for JavaScript applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 2 reviews, 273 commits in 8 years
Contributions summary:Stephen made several commits focused on correcting code and fixing typos within the `bottlejs` repository. The primary changes involved correcting spelling errors in documentation and source code, and also the refactoring of the codebase to resolve a code issue in the middleware logic. They touched upon critical files such as the main distribution file `bottle.js`, source code files and test files.
decoratorsservice-locatorpsr-11injectionjavascript
zumba/csv-policy
Dec 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:55 commits in 2 months
policycsvpolicy-drivenvalidationsecurity
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