⌨️ Steven Proctor Email & Phone Number

North Richland Hills, Tx, Us

Functional Geekery is a podcast focusing on functional programming covering topics across different programming languages.- Media Sponsor for CodeMesh 2014- Media Sponsor for Erlang Factory San Fransisco 2015- Media Sponsor for Erlang User Conference 2015- Media Sponsor for CodeMesh 2015- Media Sponsor for CityCode Chicago 2015

Chicago, Il, Us

Guided transition to new Lambda application architecture using the interceptor pattern as part of standardizing development experience across the micro-services owned by the team

Chicago, Il, Us

• Platform engineer developing AWS Lambda micro-services running on ClojureScript serving XXXX Requests/Second of production traffic• Reduced AWS Lambda failure rate by 1,000x for a single service by moving to use FIFO Queues• Coordinated “Code Readings”, an inter-team sharing session, to share knowledge on upcoming changes, helpful tips and practices, and various other learnings• Open-sourced a Clojure Interceptor library, Papillon, to reduce complexity around asynchronous programming in ClojureScript AWS Lambdas

Southlake, Texas, Us

- Reduced session initialization timings of phone application by a factor of 4- Developed features for support team to more quickly and efficiently troubleshoot user's issues- Created release artifacts for front-end Single Page Application and collaborated with the operations team update deployment process to use a generated artifact to ensure a stable and common release between certification and production environments as well as multiple servers across each environment- Prototyped a multi-lingual airline lookup service with a response time that was at least 2 orders of magnitude quicker than the front page of Google.com to show simplicity of how a multi-language service could be developed- Initiated a Programming Languages Study Group to learn ideas from languages we wouldn't be using everyday and understand how those ideas can be pulled back to improve our daily work- Integrated code style checker into automated build process to reduce bickering between team members about coding style during code reviews, allowing reviewers to focus their efforts on reviewing the design and fit-for-purpose of code developed for a feature

Birmingham, England, Gb

Shelter Island, Ny, Us

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

• Designed and developed web services as part of a Real Time Bidding infrastructure.• Implemented processes to reduce the number of defects that get deployed to production.• Developed distributed reporting system using a map/reduce strategy to allow for parallelization of work.• Designed and developed debugging tools to allow for quicker troubleshooting of customer issues.• Improved performance, stability, and efficiency of multiple applications by:◦ Instrumented performance metrics, such as spend per second, across different applications to notify development team of issues.◦ Instrumented charts of performance metric data to be able to track trends and associate changes in performance with release timings.◦ Improved application’s use of database interactions to result a savings of over 1000 minutes of load intensive processing time every hour.• Took multiple applications from manual multi-step deployment to a repeatable deploy across multiple servers via a single command for each, drastically reducing the chance of error in deployment.• Architected solution for traceability of events across multiple systems.

Developed web based application to collect test scores of kindergartners in order to rank Pre-K programs for how well the programs are preparing students for kindergarten.Refurbished state level reports for over 200,000 students to run from 35 minutes to under 10 seconds.Re-architected an import system to complete in under 10 minutes from over 3 days.Mentored teammates on simplifying object design and composable behavior.Identified and addressed application security vulnerabilities.

Austin, Texas, Us

Collaborated with Product Management to define new feature development direction and refinement of use cases.Technical domain lead for the redesign to consolidate two separate applications into one unified application to better mirror the users actual business model.Mentored other developers on the idiosyncrasies of domain specific business logic.Developed calculations to balance and aggregate the quantities of materials used throughout the different stages of the processing model.Identified, raised, and fixed extensive use case gaps in application's data integrity before the release to the customer.

New York, Us

Grew to fulfill the roles of technical domain expert and technical lead on the specification management and formulation applications.Collaboratively developed feature for the users of the Design Workbench application to create label ingredient order statements for their food products.Developed new data type to allow customers to customize the application.Extended linear optimization engine to run against user defined custom data.

Primary developer for the maintenance and new feature development of the applications used to manage the formulations of finished goods for the foodservice industry.Collaboratively developed the calculation of the theoretical yields of formulations to account for different types of processing loss.Developed the feature to allow users to import specifications between the Process and the Design Workbench applications.Developed the ability for a user to select different representations of the Process specifications and print them to a PDF file.

Rewrote loading of translation items cache and took the loading of the application from a 3 minute load time to under 30 seconds.Developed features for a new application allowing users to create experimental recipe formulations.

Lead the Computer Lab for the Computer Science 1 course at The University of Texas at Dallas.Mentored the Computer Science 1 students to help them to break down the problems into the steps needed to solve the problem, as help them to understand how to implement the problems in C++.

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M.S., Computer Science

B.S., Computer Science