Steven Neiland
Chief Software Architect (fDi) at Financial Times
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Neiland is a Chief Software Architect with 14 years of experience designing and delivering ColdFusion/CFML and React web applications, currently leading architecture for fDi at the Financial Times. He combines hands-on backend expertise—contributing to the popular FW/1 ColdFusion MVC framework as a developer and QA engineer—with practical leadership in database-driven systems using SQL Server and MySQL. Steven has repeatedly led small teams to adopt automated testing, deployment and modern best practices while retaining deep troubleshooting and infrastructure skills from earlier roles. Based in Florida, he is selective about engagements and focused on long-term, in‑place roles, bringing a blend of legacy CFML mastery and contemporary front-end React fluency that helps organizations modernize without wholesale rewrites.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Software Development, Bachelor of Science Software Development at Munster Technological University
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Github Skills (10)
web-framework10
cfml10
dependency-injection10
coldfusion10
testing10
mvc-framework9
refactoring8
refactor8
sql-server6
security6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
framework-one/fw1
May 2019 - Jul 2021
FW/1 - Framework One - is a lightweight, convention over configuration, MVC application framework for ColdFusion / CFML.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 30 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Steven contributed to the framework's core functionality by adding an option to inject properties, including an option to ignore missing bean properties during injection. They then reverted to using invoke and added tests to validate the property injection process. The user also updated version tags throughout the project, indicating a role in maintaining and releasing the framework. Their contributions included refactoring, testing and updating version tags.
phpcfmlframeworkmvc-applicationapplication-framework
sneiland/modular_fw1
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 9 pushes in 10 months
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