Stephen Bader
Associate Director Of Open Source Applications
Clayton, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Bader is an experienced open source applications leader with 12+ years at NC State University managing Moodle, WordPress, WebWorks and in-house tools, and over a decade of hands-on experience contributing to and maintaining Moodle and WordPress ecosystems. As Associate Director of Open Source Applications he combines technical stewardship—co-maintaining the Moodle Zoom plugin and contributing to core fixes—with agile delivery practices using GitHub, Actions, and JIRA. He builds and ships custom plugins, themes, and core patches in PHP/Laravel stacks and mentors teams through complex upgrades and Tier 3 support. Outside work he pursues freelance projects and personal web apps, reflecting a long-term, practical commitment to open source collaboration and peer review.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityBS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at University of North Carolina at Asheville
Github Skills (5)
moodle10
zoom-meeting10
wordpress5
integrations2
rich-text-editor1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
smbader/screeps-tnf
Oct 2022 - Jan 2026
Contributions:7 reviews, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
smbader/moodle
Nov 2015 - Nov 2025
A direct mirror of the official moodle.git repository at http://git.moodle.org/. Please do NOT file PULL requests here, instead please use http://tracker.moodle.org
Contributions:1 PR, 48 pushes, 27 branches in 10 years 1 month
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