Stewart Stewart
Consultant
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStewart Stewart is a consultant and software developer with 11 years focused on typed functional programming in Scala and building distributed systems. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Slick, improving PostgreSQL support and code generation, and brings practical database engineering experience to backend work. Beyond coding, he organizes meetups, speaks, streams, and mentors within the Scala community, helping translate advanced PL/verification ideas into usable tools. His interests span constraint solvers, DSLs, formal verification, and behavioral economics, reflecting a blend of rigorous theory and real-world system design. Based in New York, he pairs deep technical curiosity with a commitment to education, community building, and ergonomic, error-resistant software. An avid hobbyist in dance, puzzles, and outdoor sports, he often applies cross-disciplinary creativity to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
Resigned - no degree, Resigned - no degree at Williams College
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Github Skills (14)
databases10
code-generation10
postgresql10
sql10
database10
scala10
jdbc7
h27
recursion6
lambda6
functional-programming6
coding-style6
python6
lint6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
slick/slick
Mar 2016 - Jan 2019
Slick (Scala Language Integrated Connection Kit) is a modern database query and access library for Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 35 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Stewart contributed to the Slick project by adding features related to database interaction and code generation. They implemented support for the text type in PostgreSQL column builders, which likely improves database compatibility. The user also updated the code generator, including documentation and examples that use a config URI. Furthermore, the user refined database interactions by adding support for PostgreSQL's citext data type and making generated case classes final by default.
queryintegratedscala-slicksqldatabase-query
stewSquared/twisty-groups
Feb 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:51 commits, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
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