About Me

Desk in my office

Hi, thanks for stopping by 👋. I’m Stephen Hanson, an Austin-based software engineer. I am currently work on tax reporting at Stripe. Before Stripe, I was Development Director at a digital agency called thoughtbot.

I’m motivated by building. I get satisfaction from making things that are useful and delightful. That’s why I built the office I work out of and furniture in my home, and it’s also why I built open source tools like Fishery and Belt.

I’m a generalist, with some deep specializations. I’m happiest in positions where I can have a large impact. I enjoy working across the stack and across teams, implementing mission-critical features from end-to-end. Over the course of my 13 year career, I’ve worked in many different technologies, with recent years focused on React, React Native, Ruby on Rails, and Node.

Contact

I’d love to get in touch! You can find me here:

The best way to reach me is by email, or LinkedIn if we are connected there, though I might not check that as frequently.

Behind the curtain

This site is built using the Middleman static site generator and is deployed to Netlify. You can check out the code on GitHub.