Steven Mcfarlane
Senior Software Engineer at Scientist.com
Orem, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Mcfarlane is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building web applications, currently focused on Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL at Scientist.com. He brings deep back-end expertise and a history of consulting across front-end frameworks and mobile stacks from his time at Notch8, pairing pragmatic engineering with client-facing delivery. An active contributor to the ruby community, he significantly extended the jira-ruby gem to support Agile boards and sprint management, showing a knack for improving developer tooling. Trained in business and marketing, he combines technical depth with product-minded thinking and experience managing high-stakes client budgets earlier in his career. Outside of work he channels curiosity into personal coding projects, photography, and guitar, reflecting a continuous learner who enjoys building both software and creative work.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at SD LearnHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at La Costa Canyon High SchoolBrigham Young University-Idaho
Github Skills (8)
api-rest10
rest-api10
api10
jira10
api-design10
restful-api10
ruby10
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sumoheavy/jira-ruby
May 2016 - May 2016
A Ruby gem for the JIRA REST API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Steven contributed significantly to the `jira-ruby` gem, focusing on expanding its capabilities related to Agile boards and sprints. Their work involved implementing new resources for Agile boards, allowing for features like finding boards, retrieving issues, and managing sprints. The user also added functionality to add issues to sprints and the backlog, and fixed related bugs.
apiruby-gemjirarubygem
smcfarlane/dotfiles
Feb 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 10 months
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