Summary
Rodney Stainback is a Principal Engineer and seasoned technology leader with over two decades of hands-on experience architecting IoT, cloud-native, and data science solutions across industries from utilities and healthcare to elections and finance. He blends deep mathematical and security expertise with practical engineering—building microservice frameworks for Kubernetes, redesigning large-scale accounting and search platforms, and scaling IoT meter ingestion systems to communicate with millions of devices. Comfortable bridging C-suite strategy and developer trenches, Rodney routinely turns complex distributed problems into elegant, reusable designs and has driven multimillion-dollar cost savings through modern open-source platforms. He is a true polyglot—fluent in dozens of languages and databases—and uniquely combines low-level systems knowledge (including embedded, assembly and crypto) with advanced ML, GPGPU, and parallel algorithm experience.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) Certification Computer Software Engineering, Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) Certification Computer Software Engineering at Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) Training
Extra Curricular Courses Computer Programming, Extra Curricular Courses Computer Programming at Vance-Granville Community College
Certificate PowerBuilder, Certificate PowerBuilder at PowerBuilder Training
Certificate Pathways Interface Manager (Cloverleaf), Certificate Pathways Interface Manager (Cloverleaf) at McKesson Educational Services
Certificate Think like a hacker security vulnerability and penetration testing, Certificate Think like a hacker security vulnerability and penetration testing at Cigital, Inc.
Certificate Computer Technology 2, Certificate Computer Technology 2 at ECPI Technical College
High School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Southern Vance High School
Certificate Java Programming Language SL-275, Certificate Java Programming Language SL-275 at Sun Educational Services