Dennis Stepp
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Kroger
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Stepp is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in Knoxville, TN with nine years of experience building and optimizing production systems across retail, healthcare, and enterprise software. He blends hands-on engineering—instrumenting microservices with Prometheus/Grafana and DataDog and improving performance under stress—with product-level thinking from prior product owner and QA roles. At Kroger and Lirio he has driven integrations, streamlined build/deploy processes, and reduced technical debt while mentoring teams on SDLC best practices. Outside of work he organizes user groups and festivals, speaks at conferences, and runs a game development studio, reflecting a practical creativity that surfaces in both community leadership and hobbyist game projects.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Benton Central Jr/Sr HighschoolBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Ball State University
English
Github Skills (8)
gradle3
ssh2
gradle-plugin2
kotlin-dsl2
groovy2
devrel1
pcf1
logos1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
beerd7017/java-project-template
Feb 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 push, 9 branches in 4 years 6 months
beerd7017/slurm-presentation
Sep 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
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