David Steed
Senior Software Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton
Leesburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Steed is a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years building backend-first, cloud-native microservice systems—primarily in Java/Spring Boot—across Kubernetes, Harbor/Rancher, and AWS environments. He brings hands-on expertise in messaging (ActiveMQ, Kafka, Camel), test-driven development (JUnit/Mockito), CI/CD and container workflows (Gradle, Helm, Nexus, Docker), and practical scripting for automation and debugging. A proven team leader and mentor, he routinely steps into product owner or systems engineer gaps, authors plain-English runbooks, and onboardings to reduce tribal knowledge risk. Cleared to Top Secret/SCI (POLY eligible) and preferring 100% remote roles, he can also do selective hybrid work around Leesburg, VA. Unusually for a backend specialist, he pairs technical depth with an English Writing degree—producing clear, customer-facing documentation—and even experiments with Unreal 4 blueprint game scripting in his spare time.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Technical Certifications and TrainingBachelor's Degree English Writing Program, Bachelor's Degree English Writing Program at George Mason University
English, French, klingon, morrigi, curse like a navy contractor, thari
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Github Skills (68)
programming-language10
authentication10
lambda-functions10
golang10
aws-cdk10
cloud-infrastructure10
libusb10
development-kit10
aws10
scaffolding9
amplify9
aws-amplify9
api9
cli9
terraform9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
davidsteed/awscdkstaticsite
Jan 2020 - May 2022
AWS React site generator with security headers
Contributions:32 commits, 12 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 years 3 months
reactsecurityreact-sitecloudfrontheaders
davidsteed/cognito
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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