Steven Loria
Junior Software Engineer at Butterfly Network, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Loria is a seasoned backend-focused software engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable Python tooling and APIs, most recently serving as Principal Software Engineer at Butterfly Network after a senior engineering stint at the Center for Open Science. He blends deep open-source contributions—across well-known projects like marshmallow, webargs, aiohttp, mkdocs, and TextBlob—with practical DevOps and testing improvements, demonstrating both library design and production readiness. Comfortable across web frameworks and async ecosystems, he has a track record of improving serialization, request parsing, documentation generation, and testing infrastructure. His academic background in neurobiology informs a data-oriented mindset and a methodical approach to problem solving. Known for continuous learning (his GitHub motto: "Always a student, forever a junior developer"), he brings curiosity and humility to engineering leadership. Equally at home refactoring core libraries and shipping application features, he focuses on maintainability and developer ergonomics.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Neurobiology and Neurosciences, Bachelor of Science (BS), Neurobiology and Neurosciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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python10
onclick10
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http10
authentication10
swagger10
deserialization10
rest-api10
openapi10
flask10
aiohttp10
markdown10
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
sloria/TextBlob
Jun 2013 - Oct 2021
Simple, Pythonic, text processing--Sentiment analysis, part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase extraction, translation, and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Core Contributor
Back-end Developer & Core ContributorContributions:12 reviews, 428 commits, 106 PRs in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Steven made significant performance improvements to the `TextBlob` library by making sentences a cached property. Their contributions included refactoring code in `tests/blob_tests.py` and `text/blob.py` and introducing caching to optimize the retrieval of sentences. The user also improved the quality of the code by fixing the translation test and other code-related issues. They made further improvements in the form of adding a stem method and also updating the core dependencies.
part-of-speechextractionpythontranslationtext-processing
marshmallow-code/marshmallow
Nov 2013 - Nov 2022
A lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from simple Python datatypes.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:115 reviews, 1967 commits, 892 PRs in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Steven's commits primarily focused on improving and maintaining the core functionality of the marshmallow library. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to validation, serialization, and deserialization, as well as refactoring code and adding new features. These changes involved modifications to the core modules, including fields, schema, and validation logic, enhancing the library's overall robustness and usability for developers utilizing marshmallow.
serdepythonmarshallingdeserializationvalidation
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