Steven Hall
Back End Developer at Tuhk Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Hall is a back-end developer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput web platforms and dynamic server-driven UIs, currently contributing at Tuhk Inc. He has shipped production systems that served tens of millions of users and billions of video views, and notably rewrote a video player with MobX to cut bundle size 4x while boosting revenue. Comfortable across PHP/Laravel, TypeScript, and database migrations (Oracle → PostgreSQL), he pairs pragmatic engineering with product-focused instrumentation such as A/B testing and AI-based ranking dashboards. An active open-source contributor, he has improved tooling like git-radar and strengthened language docs for Gravity, reflecting a habit of polishing developer experience as well as user-facing features. Based in Vancouver with a BASc from UBC, he brings a collaborative, metric-driven approach and a knack for turning legacy systems into maintainable, high-performance services.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Certificate, Engineering Certificate at Kwantlen Polytechnic UniversityBachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering (Software Option) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering (Software Option) Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia
English
Github Skills (13)
version-control10
sh10
git10
syntax10
programming-language10
script10
bash10
shell10
scripting10
documentation10
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
marcobambini/gravity
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
Gravity Programming Language
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:52 commits, 37 PRs, 73 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the documentation of the Gravity Programming Language. Their commits involved fixing grammatical errors, improving the clarity and consistency of the documentation, and adding new sections. The user also added documentation for key features such as the import statement, string methods, and the Math class, significantly enhancing the usability and understandability of the language.
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michaeldfallen/git-radar
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
A heads up display for git
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 7 PRs, 56 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality of the git-radar tool. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to issue #69, adding a feature to control the fetch frequency, and improving the fetching mechanism's behavior and customization options. Further, they made code improvements and fixed a parameter substitution error, enhancing the tool's usability and efficiency.
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