Sterling Hanenkamp
Founding Engineer at Full Stack GTM
Manhattan, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSterling Hanenkamp is a founding engineer and seasoned backend systems designer with 19 years of experience building secure, cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Golang and Perl with broad systems work across ERP, payments, data warehousing, and service mesh architectures, having implemented production-grade networking and Istio/Envoy integrations. A pragmatic Open Source advocate and continuous learner, he contributes to projects like MetaCPAN (adding Google OAuth2 support) and runs Qubling LLC to explore right-tool-for-the-job solutions. At ZipRecruiter he established a security development team and automation to make secure practices easier for engineers, and he’s repeatedly launched technical efforts as a founding engineer at startups. Based in Manhattan, Kansas, Sterling pairs academic rigor (M.S. in Computer Science) with a preference for understanding systems “top to bottom,” and he enjoys sharing lessons learned publicly through talks and mentoring.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Kansas State UniversityManhattan Christian College
Github Skills (7)
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perl10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
metacpan/metacpan-api
Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
A free, open API for everything you want to know about CPAN
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Sterling primarily focused on implementing Google OAuth2 authentication for the MetaCPAN API. Their work involved modifying backend code to handle the authentication process, including exchanging authorization codes for access tokens, retrieving user information, and updating user data. They fixed missing dependencies, corrected field names, and added required parameters for Google's authentication redirect. The user also removed warnings used during development.
apieverythingpythonmetacpanperl
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