Steven Wanderski
Lead Engineer at 4aGoodCause
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Wanderski is a Lead Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in Ruby on Rails, payments, and building resilient SaaS platforms. He architected and has maintained for nearly a decade a Heroku-deployed Rails platform that processes over $20M in annual donations, integrating Stripe, PayPal, and Authorize.net with test-driven CI/CD workflows. Comfortable as both a solo maintainer and a distributed-team engineer, he emphasizes code quality through TDD, code reviews, and reliable background job systems. His background spans freelance work, agency leadership, and product engineering at startups, and he contributes front-end fixes to open-source projects like bxSlider, showing fluency across JavaScript, CSS, and backend systems. Based in Chicago, he’s open to remote contract or full-time roles where he can help teams ship production-grade Rails systems faster.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Information Systems, Bachelor Computer Information Systems at Eastern Illinois University
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Github Skills (13)
css10
javascript10
jquery10
sliders9
heroku6
bxslider6
jquery-ui6
html6
factory-bot6
jquery-mobile6
architecture6
headless-browser6
bdd6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stevenwanderski/bxslider-4
Feb 2017 - Aug 2018
Responsive jQuery content slider
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 8 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the `bxslider-4` repository by making updates and refinements to the core JavaScript code. These changes include bumping the version number, removing features from the theme, and fixing broken links. The commits show the user actively maintaining and improving the bxSlider content slider, ensuring its functionality and addressing user-reported issues. The user's work is focused on JavaScript and CSS within the jQuery context.
bxsliderjquerysliderjavascriptimage-slider
stevenwanderski/trixie
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Rails CMS for the rest of us
Contributions:28 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
ruby-on-railscmsrails-cmsrailsruby
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