Kyle Stevens

Senior Software Engineer

I’m a Software Engineer with twenty years of software development experience including fifteen years with Ruby on Rails. I’ve spent most of my career working with high-performance, remotely distributed teams. As my track-record shows, I prefer long term opportunities where I can learn, grow and make major contributions to an organization. I specialize in web-based business applications.

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Experience

Modo Labs

Senior Software Engineer • 2021 — Present

  • Led end-to-end development of a Ruby on Rails application powering the Bookings API for a solution used by Fortune 100 banks.
  • Collaborated with product managers to refine requirements and translate them into actionable tasks for a team of six engineers.
  • Defined new engineering standards with the Bookings API, influencing patterns adopted in both existing codebases and subsequent Rails apps.

HackerOne / PullRequest

Code Reviewer • 2018 — Present

  • PullRequest is a code-review-as-a-service platform. Did code reviews as a part-time, independent contractor.
  • Reviewed pull requests written in Ruby, JavaScript and TypeScript.

Data Axle

Senior Software Engineer • 2019 — 2021

  • Contributed to a Ruby on Rails application providing data on over 15 million businesses and 300 million people, collaborating with a highly experienced team of Rails developers.
  • Improved and extended a Rails + Sidekiq data pipeline that processes millions of updates per month.
  • Led development of a new source ingestion project using Python and Spark (PySpark) to standardize raw data into JSON format for downstream Rails processing.
  • Gained hands-on experience with AWS Athena, Glue, and collaborated with a Machine Learning team to deploy and integrate ML models.

Liaison International

Principal Software Enginee • 2013 — 2019

  • Worked on a data-centric Ruby on Rails application used by many well-known colleges and universities for admissions decisions.
  • Led teams of engineers in the design and development of new features and enhancements.
  • Spearheaded a successful, incremental upgrade of a large monolithic Rails app to newer versions of Ruby and Rails.
  • Scaled the application to support a new client with tens of thousands of applicants.
  • Contributed to numerous data quality initiatives and API improvements.

The Northeast Group

Senior Software Engineer • 2006 — 2013

  • Designed, developed, maintained, and supported a full-featured Warehouse Management System (WMS).
  • Developed core WMS features including order and inventory management, integrated UPS shipping, invoicing, QuickBooks integration, freight auditing, bill of lading generation, and barcode scanning workflows.
  • Collaborated with well-known e-commerce clients to integrate their sites with the warehouse and supported traditional clients in selling on platforms like Nordstrom.com, Amazon.com, and Sears.com.

Education

Empire State College

Bachelor of Science in Information Systems • 2006