Stu Young
Senior User Experience Designer at DIRECTV
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolStu Young is a Senior User Experience Designer based in Chicago with over 20 years of practice creating intuitive, responsive websites and mobile apps and a decade of focused UX leadership roles. He blends deep user research, data-informed decision making, and hands-on information architecture to deliver wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs that reduce friction and drive measurable business outcomes. As a lead instructor at Flatiron School he has mentored cohorts of up to 70 students and managed instructor teams, translating real-world client work into teachable best practices. His background spans enterprise eCommerce, SaaS dashboards, and complex operations tools—plus practical DevOps contributions to open-source projects like Open edX where he improved CI/CD and test reporting. Known for delivering under tight deadlines, Stu pairs practical coding literacy (HTML/CSS, basic JS) with strong facilitation and stakeholder communication to move teams from insight to implementation.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.); minor in Journalism, Broadcasting /Journalism, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.); minor in Journalism, Broadcasting /Journalism at Indiana University Bloomington
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (20)
docker10
python10
configuration-management10
bash10
codecov10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
infrastructure10
ansible10
jenkins10
ansible-galaxy10
jenkins-ci10
automations10
data-service9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/configuration
Aug 2016 - Mar 2021
A collection of edx configuration scripts and utilities that edx.org uses to deploy openedx.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:33 reviews, 149 commits, 252 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Stu primarily focused on improving the deployment and build processes for the edx platform. They implemented changes to the Ansible bootstrap script, disabling automatic updates to avoid conflicts and making cleanup improvements. Further, they updated Chrome, Chromedriver, and modified the xvfb service. They also configured the timestamper plugin in Jenkins, demonstrating a focus on CI/CD pipeline management.
openedxansibledockerpython
openedx/openedx-platform
Jun 2016 - Mar 2021
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 193 commits, 475 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Stu primarily focused on improving the CI/CD pipeline for the edx-platform repository, specifically by integrating code coverage reporting tools like Codecov. They added and subsequently removed Codecov integration and also stopped reporting to Coveralls. Additionally, they updated the project's prerequisites and made changes to backend code. These changes reflect a focus on automated testing, reporting and backend code modification.
lmsopenedxbackend-service
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