Summary
Steven Galvin is a versatile web developer turned in-house substitute teacher in Portland, Oregon, bringing nine years of hands-on software experience to early childhood education. He spent years freelancing and building full-stack projects—from Rails APIs and PHP/MySQL websites to PWAs with QR scanning and interactive JS apps—demonstrating a pragmatic, toolkit-driven approach to problem solving. At ByteShift he built production Rails APIs and worked with React Native and beacon-based location features, showing comfort across backend, mobile, and frontend stacks. Now applying his communication, collaboration, and pedagogy skills in a Montessori setting, he pairs technical curiosity with a calm, patient approach to coaching young learners. Uncommonly, his background means he can bridge education and technology, designing learning experiences informed by real product and UX thinking.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s of Applied Science, Web Development and Design, Associate’s of Applied Science, Web Development and Design at Portland Community College