Steven Bapaga
Senior Developer at Freelance webdeveloper
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSteven Bapaga is a senior full-stack developer with over a decade of experience building and modernizing web applications across Node, Ruby and PHP stacks, currently contributing at Shopify from Sheffield. He blends object-oriented and functional JavaScript practices with strong backend skills (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) to deliver readable, maintainable code and often champions test-driven and SOLID-driven engineering. His background spans government, media, ecommerce and betting platforms—shipping everything from microservices at the Ministry of Justice to large-scale React frontends and mobile web apps. As a former CTO and long-time freelancer, he pairs hands-on implementation with mentoring and process improvements, having introduced automated test suites and dependency modernizations that improved resilience. Notably, he favors subtle craftsmanship: beautiful design accompanied by concise, creative code that reveals more than meets the eye.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biochemistry and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biochemistry and Computer Science at Keele UniversityA levels, Biology, General, A levels, Biology, General at Whitley Academy
French, English
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Github Skills (79)
perl10
cross-platform10
android10
freeradius10
ios10
react-native10
react10
mod-manager9
browser9
figma-plugin9
component-library9
relay9
usrp9
snmp9
zoneminder9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ministryofjustice/offloc-server
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
A simple server for downloading the latest NOMIS extract.
Contributions:56 commits, 27 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 months
downloaddownloadingdownloadersimple-server
romidane/react-redux-cordova
Oct 2016 - Jan 2021
A Cordova React and Redux boilerplate app.
Contributions:12 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
reactredux-boilerplateboilerplatecordovareact-native
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