Stefan Young Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

· Tech Lead for Domain Graph and APIs team, responsible for building a multi-year roadmap, driv- ing cross-team platform initiatives, mentoring junior and senior engineers, and defining processes to minimize toil and improve quality of life.· Lead design and implementation of a multi year company-level strategic initiative to build the Domain Graph, an in-house application development framework used by all application engineers at Benchling, accelerating time to market for new product development and standardizing API coverage across legacy products.· Designed and led a multi quarter, multi-team project to develop the company’s first general purpose data access API to power first party analytics, machine learning, and data visualization products.· Evolved customer data warehouse product, implementing a control plane to automate ops and scal- ing tasks, decreased RBAC permissions sync latency by 10x, and trained the post-sales engineering organization on Postgres query plan best practices.· DRI for the public facing developer platform which includes a REST API, realtime events product, and Postgres Data Warehouse, supporting teams through modeling complex internal domains in a consistent way across these varied interfaces to unlock customer third party integrations into Benchling.

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

- Member of Reliability working group, defining best practices around SLOs and incident management to uplevel the engineering org's reliability stack.- Redesigned the coding element of Heap's onsite to improve candidate experience, increase signal, and reduce load on interviewers.- Scaled the in-house data lake (S3) and query engine (Spark) to support faster ETL for the connect product, decrease costs, and accommodate 10x customer volume.- Redesigned legacy Connect service: implemented event sourcing to decouple state from upstream services, added data quality and schema stability tests to prevent data quality incidents, and simplified its architecture to support feature parity across all warehouse destinations.- Added support for new warehouse features in BigQuery, Redshift, and Snowflake to improve outbound ETL performance and reliability, as well as customer query performance downstream.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Atlanta, Georgia , Us

Teaching assistant for Introduction to Object Oriented Programming computer science class.Taught weekly recitation sections, graded and delivered feedback for homework assignments and tests, held office hours, and interacted with students electronically via a Piazza forum to answer questions.

Atlanta, Georgia , Us

Undergraduate research assistant to Dr. Mark Borodovsky in the Computational Biology lab at Georgia Tech. Worked on a CDC contracted project to develop improved algorithms for identification and classification of Human Papillomavirus (HPV). Generated novel approach for classification of HPV and implemented a series of linear perceptrons to better distinguish HPV DNA from contaminants post sequencing.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Software Engineering intern on Virtual Terminal team. Full stack engineering using Ember.js, Ruby on Rails, and Java. Designed and implemented novel onboarding flow.

Alexandria, Va, Us

Developed tools to process Whitespace simulated data sets of population dynamics in the city of Baltimore. Tools cataloged population distribution and individual actor behavior in the simulation and bundled processed data into visual Shapefiles for GIS rendering.Designed, built, and deployed a full-stack continually changing website to support the release and download of data to users. Implemented the application with Semantic UI, JQuery, Spring Boot, and MySQL. Managed the MySQL server and static storage with the AWS Java API and migrated application to AWS hosting.

Computer Science

High School