Software Engineer

Tanner
Steorts

Full-stack developer specializing in Laravel + React applications with real-time capabilities. I build products that are fast, polished, and fun to use.

Billings, MT tanner.steorts@icloud.com GitHub

Experience

Oct 2025 — Present Remote

Support Engineer

Givebutter

Strengthen a global nonprofit CRM and fundraising platform by contributing to feature development, system maintenance, and reliability improvements across the stack.
Monitor, triage, and escalate platform incidents with a focus on rapid root-cause identification, clear communication, and minimizing customer impact.
Build internal tools and automation that streamline support workflows, reduce ticket volume, and improve team response times.

Jun 2024 — Oct 2025 Billings, MT

Programmer

Computers Unlimited

Contributed to the development and maintenance of an enterprise mobile app alongside an industry-leading ERP solution for over 8,000 devices.
Communicated with team members through Atlassian products like Jira and Bitbucket, to create tasks and pull requests.

Jan 2022 — Jun 2024 Billings, MT

Software Engineer

Software Design Associates

Heavily contributed to the development of the Fence Cloud software suite. Helped build robust and scalable solutions that empower 600+ clients.
Created a scalable middleware for customers to integrate with Zapier, introducing authentication and REST standards to the infrastructure.
Played an innovative role in launching Fence Cloud, in-house cloud-based software using Microsoft Azure.

Projects

Featured Laravel · React · Expo · WebSockets · Stripe

Gridiron Duels

Real-Time Fantasy Football Draft Platform

Architecture

Service-oriented backend with dedicated engines for draft orchestration, CPU AI with configurable difficulty, scoring logic, and event-driven post-game hooks.

Scale

Multiple game modes — Classic 1v1, League (up to 16 players), VS CPU, Crazy Mode, Time Machine past seasons, and Weekly Challenges across all 18 NFL weeks.

Real-Time

WebSocket infrastructure for live draft turns, spectating, presence-aware global chat, leaderboard updates, battle pass, cosmetics system, and Stripe-powered coin shop.

gridiron-duels.com →

VS Code Extension

Twitch Codes

A VS Code extension that bridges Twitch chat with your editor. Viewers highlight lines, suggest and vote on code changes, and scroll the editor — all via chat commands.

This Site

Personal Website

Portfolio and blog built with Astro. Static, fast, and deployed to GitHub Pages.

HourCrew

Private

Photo-a-Day with Friends

Mobile + backend monorepo for taking a photo every hour with your crew. Shared TypeScript package handles types, Zod schemas, and hour-window math across both apps.

Expo · Next.js · PostgreSQL · S3 · Turborepo

Mort

Private

Personal AI Assistant

Local-first AI assistant over Telegram. Acts as an autonomous dev agent that spawns Claude Code to write full PRs across repos, plus chat, reminders, notes, and proactive check-ins.

Telegram · Groq · Claude · Raspberry Pi

Montarev

Private

Notion ↔ Discord Integration

Bidirectional sync — Notion task webhooks create Discord embeds and threads, and a /update slash command appends structured update blocks back to the Notion page.

Node.js · Notion API · discord.js · PostgreSQL

DnD Mothership

Private

Tabletop Companion System

Each player carries a 3.5" ESP32 touchscreen showing stats, HP, and spell slots; a Node.js mothership on the DM’s laptop pushes live updates from a web dashboard.

ESP32 · LVGL · Node.js · WebSockets

StreamCode.Live

Private

Developer Streaming Platform

Live-streaming platform for developers — auth, stream creation/editing, watch pages, and live chat messaging.

Laravel · Blade

HyGambling

Private

Hytale Casino Plugin

Server-side casino plugin — loot boxes, 3-reel slots with up to 100x multipliers, full roulette wheel, per-player UUID-persisted balance, casino NPCs, and admin controls.

Java · Hytale Server Core

Tech News Gram

Public

Automated Short-Form Video Generator

Pulls tech news, generates voiceover with ElevenLabs, transcribes with Whisper for SRT subtitles, composites the video with FFmpeg, and uploads to TikTok automatically.

Python · ElevenLabs · Whisper · FFmpeg