Steven Clontz
Associate Professor Of Mathematics
Mobile, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Clontz is an associate professor of mathematics and experienced puzzle designer with 13 years of academic and technical experience, based at the University of South Alabama. He blends rigorous research in general and set-theoretic topology with practical work advancing sociotechnical infrastructure for STEM education and scholarly publishing. In the classroom he champions active, team-based inquiry learning that gets students discovering mathematics themselves, and outside academia he has designed large-scale puzzle hunts and ARGs featured at the National Museum of Mathematics. A hands-on developer as well, he has contributed front-end and XSLT work to the widely used PreTeXt authoring system, helping transform scholarly documents into web and slide formats. His career uniquely combines deep theoretical math, open-source publishing tooling, and public-facing puzzle design to engage diverse learners and communities.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mathematics, 4.0, PhD, Mathematics, 4.0 at Auburn University
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Github Skills (18)
xslt10
front-end-development10
css9
highcharts9
html9
authorizations8
auth8
publish8
authorization8
authorize8
authorisation8
ruby-on-rails6
nodejs6
svelte6
typescript6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
PreTeXtBook/pretext
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
PreTeXt: an authoring and publishing system for scholarly documents
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 26 commits, 62 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the front-end development of the PreTeXt project, focusing on transforming PreTeXt documents into various presentation formats like Beamer and Reveal.js slideshows. Their work involved creating XSL transformations to control the presentation logic and styling, including adding features like abstracts and styling terms. Furthermore, the user also worked on the configuration of PreTeXt-CLI and improved its integration.
stempublishingpdfpretexttextbook
StevenClontz/checkit-svelte
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 133 pushes in 11 months
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