Steven Proctor
Senior Software Engineer at Functional Geekery
North Richland Hills, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Proctor is a Principal Software Engineer with 15+ years building resilient, high-performance systems across banking, healthcare, food production, and real-time bidding. He combines deep architecture experience—from serverless ClojureScript AWS Lambdas to enterprise web apps—with a knack for simplifying complex problems into elegant, maintainable solutions. Known for driving measurable improvements (for example reducing an AWS Lambda failure rate by 1000x and slashing long-running reports from minutes to seconds), he pairs technical rigor with pragmatic delivery. He mentors teams, founded the Dallas/Fort Worth Erlang User Group, and hosts the Functional Geekery podcast to explore and share functional programming ideas. Comfortable collaborating with C-level stakeholders, product, and QA, he translates business needs into robust, production-ready software. Based in North Richland Hills, TX, he brings startup agility and enterprise discipline to every project.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
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Github Skills (152)
lua10
purescript10
api10
planet10
babashka10
cookbook10
text-editor10
neovim10
gleam9
clojure9
vim-plugin9
vim9
act9
nvim9
strongly-typed9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
stevenproctor/fpcasts
Aug 2016 - Feb 2022
FPCasts
Contributions:43 commits, 7 PRs, 41 pushes in 5 years 6 months
stevenproctor/planet-erlang
Nov 2014 - Feb 2022
Repository for http://www.planeterlang.com
Contributions:101 commits, 13 PRs, 85 pushes in 7 years 4 months
gleamerlang
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