Stephanie Giang
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolStephanie Giang is a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub with nine years of backend and DevOps experience building and refining developer tools and large-scale web applications. Since joining GitHub as an intern in 2019 she has progressed through multiple engineering levels, contributing to widely used projects like GitHub Classroom where she focused on refactoring, feature flags, and test-driven improvements to improve reliability and maintainability. Prior roles at Shopify and public sector internships give her a strong foundation in backend systems and production-grade engineering. Based in Old Toronto, she combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for incremental improvements that reduce complexity—often surfacing as focused spec and model updates rather than headline features.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Honours with Specialization in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Honours with Specialization in Computer Science at University of Ottawa
Github Skills (11)
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
back-end-development9
git9
refactoring8
refactor8
devops8
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
github-education-resources/classroom
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
GitHub Classroom automates repository creation and access control, making it easy for teachers to distribute starter code and collect assignments on GitHub.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:467 commits, 128 PRs, 427 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Stephanie's commits primarily involve modifications and enhancements to the GitHub Classroom project. Their work includes removing if statements and merging branches, which indicates active involvement in code refactoring and integration. Furthermore, changes to model specifications, controller specs, and the addition of a feature flag related to search functionality suggest a focus on improving existing features and potentially optimizing system performance through testing and refactoring of code.
access-controlrubyrailsoauth
uoForms/QF-React
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:38 PRs, 76 pushes, 56 branches in 3 months
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