Sam Stephens Email & Phone Number

AWS architecture and software development. Focusing on data management, extraction and searchability.

New Zealand

Part of the Circuit board, with a particular focus on supporting Circuit in their technology decisions.

New Zealand

I provided AWS architecture, patterns and practices, and development consultancy to Ronin and their clients.

New Zealand

I provided AWS architecture, patterns and practices, and development consultancy to Koan and their clients.

Greater Seattle Area, Auckland, And London

• I worked across a wide range of systems during my tenure with Mechanical Turk, and on many projects. We owned large scale distributed systems with complex business logic and workflow, and also a number of APIs and.
• One of two senior developers on a 20 person team, providing leadership, architecture and development for the launch of two new AWS products, Amazon Augmented AI and SageMaker Ground Truth. The serverless systems we.
• Was the leader and team SME for https://requester.mturk.com, a very complex Ruby on Rails website with over 20 tables, several entities with interrelated stateful workflows, an asynchronous jobs service, and.
• Led and contributed to projects designing and building large scale distributed systems with complex business logic and workflow.
• Led and contributed to projects designing and building complex front ends, both traditional Ruby On Rails, and using modern frontend technologies such as React/Redux, Web Components, and the Shadow DOM.
• Driving operational excellence throughout my time with AWS. I was given an organisational award for my operational excellence.

Sydney, Australia

• ACARA is a federal organization, responsible for the national curriculum, national assessments and reporting on education across Australia’s states and territory.Highlights:
• Architected and developed an ASP.NET MVC 3 based system for managing and rating test items, including associated workflow. The system involves heavy use of AJAX, Knockout JS and JSON endpoints to provide a system with.
• Built a test system to process input data files for the MySchool website and scrap the website to ensure that all the data provided was ingested and displayed correctly. These tests use HttpClient from the new WebAPI.
• Provision of recommendations to improve MySchool: project practices; data gathering and management; possible technological directions for the website; improvement in development practice; and low level fixes to the.
• Driving the creation of development standards and practices, by facilitation of inclusive meetings, setting of agendas and provision of baseline recommendations for the entire team to build upon and work with.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

• Kiwibank is a state owned bank, launched in 2002. Having first come on board as a contractor, I was invited to join their team on a permanent basis. I was second in charge of the team, and acting team lead as.
• Worked on projects adding features to the Internet Banking website, which was built using ASP.NET.
• Co-developed the beta of the Android Internet Banking application.
• Heavily involved in mentoring and guidance of team members.
• Driver of code quality, championing high quality unit testing, and contributing to our QA standards and guidelines.
• Driver of operational excellence, including presenting a document to business owners that drove future work on monitoring, logging, and incident diagnosis.

• Core Technology is a medium-small applications development company in Wellington Central, with around 50 staff.I was a member of the development team. Core develops applications for clients, and also provides contract.
• Self-managing, responsible for time and workload management.
• Requirements gathering.
• Providing feedback on the Aviarc development platform, and discussions on the platform direction. Feeding enhancements from projects built in Aviarc back into the platform.
• Client relations. I was responsible as Core’s point of contact at Kiwibank, and responsible for managing Core’s team there. This team was four people at its largest.
• I also was responsible for providing maintenance, support and billing for a major energy company.

Contracted by Core.Involvement in website redevelopment for a major energy company. The J2EE website used Interwoven as a CMS. I authored JSP pages, J2EE code, and worked on the Interwoven CMS setup and Perl code. I became a Perl expert for the purposes of this project, including the code to take Interwoven metadata and produce a menu hierarchy XML file to.