Summary
Scott Stephens is a senior software engineer based in Santa Rosa with over 30 years of hands-on experience across low-level assembly to modern web stacks, currently building backend systems at Celera Technologies. He brings deep expertise in Python, C++, Java and database design, having delivered APIs, ETL pipelines, and catalog/sales backends for clients from manufacturing to media and finance. Scott has a track record of modernizing legacy systems—migrating databases, creating internal package repositories, and replacing monoliths with API-driven services—while also designing interactive front-end state machines for complex visual layouts. He combines product-minded engineering (shipping features like storefront processing and certificate provisioning) with strong systems knowledge (network services, middleware, and device integration), and has led teams and companies on GIS and telecom projects that won regional awards. A pragmatic polyglot who still codes across the stack, he pairs decades of institutional knowledge with a focus on practical, testable, and documented APIs.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Santa Rosa Junior College
Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Philosophy Mathematics, Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Philosophy Mathematics at Sonoma State University
English, Chinese, Malay, Indonesian