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his
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Get dirty with "impossible" problems to help teams excel

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Ignoring pull requests

Legacy code archaeology

AWS

Noteworthy Achievements:
  • Establish incident response practices for orgs moving from dozens of engineers to hundreds
  • Built a data pipeline under an agressive deadline, primarily using Go lambdas and DynamoDB, that makes 12.6M api requests all day, every day
  • Large zero-downtime rails upgrade efforts (3.2 => 5.1) and (4.2 => 6.0) for large monoliths during heavy active development
  • Improved build time and stability for monorepo with 200 active engineers (25mins => 7mins)"
  • Mentoring and pairing with hundreds of developers across dozens of industries
Dossier Quotes:
Steve continues to see around corners — identifying gaps in our architecture, proposing and implementing new approaches. I couldn’t imagine this project succeeding without his technical leadership.
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