Steven Surowiec
Engineer at Revelr
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Surowiec is an experienced software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years building web applications and backend systems, currently working at GitHub and cofounder/CTO of Revelr. He focuses on PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, jQuery and Symfony/Doctrine stacks, bringing practical expertise in server-side architecture and data modeling. His career spans growing startups and leadership roles—leading development and architecture for travel tech and consumer platforms—so he blends hands-on coding with product-minded technical leadership. An open-source contributor, he has improved UI development tooling by refining configuration and safety checks in the popular Lookbook project for Rails, showing attention to developer experience beyond his primary language. Based in New Jersey, he’s comfortable operating across early-stage and scale-focused environments, often tightening config and reliability around preview and annotation features. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who elevates developer workflows while shipping stable backend systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
DeVry University
Stackoverflow
10,130reputation
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51answers
14questions
mongodb
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php
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Github Skills (18)
develop10
mysql10
configuration-management10
rails10
ruby10
php10
ruby-on-rails10
mongodb9
component-kit8
ui-components8
odm6
querying6
recaptcha6
openid6
cpu-usage6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lookbook-hq/lookbook
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
A UI development environment for Ruby on Rails apps ✨
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 16 days
Contributions summary:Steven contributed to the `lookbook` project by implementing and refining configuration options related to annotations within the application's preview functionality. Their work involved adding, renaming, and defaulting a configuration setting (`preview_disable_action_view_annotations`) that controls the display of annotations. They also added a check to ensure a method exists before it is used. This suggests a focus on improving the development environment's functionality.
ruby-on-railslookbookrailsviewcomponentsruby
steves/rails
Aug 2018 - Sep 2019
Ruby on Rails
Contributions:19 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
ruby-on-railsrailsruby-onruby
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