Summary
Mitch Stephan is a Staff Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with a decade of experience designing and shipping distributed systems and microservices. He has advanced through engineering roles at Compass and previously led architecture and technical initiatives at Favor Delivery and SpareFoot, building segmentation, marketing, and assignment services that enable personalization, A/B testing, and scalable async matching. Comfortable across languages and platforms—Kotlin, Scala, PHP, Node, Go, Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS—he combines hands-on implementation with mentorship and CI/CD workflow design. Mitch has a track record of extracting complexity from monoliths into testable, deployable services and introducing ephemeral environments for safer feature development. Quietly pragmatic, he prefers to focus on improving operational velocity and measurable business outcomes rather than hunting new roles.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin