Steve Slayden
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
Fargo, North Dakota, United States
Summary
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RockstarSteve Slayden is a Software Engineer II with nine years of experience based in Fargo, ND, currently focused on AR/Collections subject matter expertise at Microsoft. He brings strong backend skills—demonstrated by contributions to the popular FormidableLabs nodejs-dashboard where he refactored code, fixed memory leaks, and implemented a socket-based agent to stream metrics. Comfortable operating in large-scale product teams, he blends pragmatic debugging and performance work with configuration and test improvements to keep production systems reliable. Colleagues rely on him for tackling hard-to-observe issues in telemetry and real-time communication stacks, a less obvious but critical part of delivering smooth user experiences.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
monitoring10
nodejs10
javascript10
telemetry10
socket-io-client9
socket9
socket-io9
testing8
npm7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
FormidableLabs/nodejs-dashboard
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Telemetry dashboard for node.js apps from the terminal!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 29 days
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on improving the node.js dashboard's backend functionality. They refactored code, fixed memory leaks, and enhanced socket communication for metrics transmission. Their work included setting up the configuration files and implementing a socket-based agent to stream metrics data. The contributions also involved test fixes and introducing additional options such as scrollback and refresh interval for the dashboard.
nodejstelemetrymonitoring
steveslayden/magneto
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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