Summary
Stefan Countryman is a Lead Full Stack Engineer in New York with 11 years of software experience and a Ph.D. in Physics, blending academic rigor with hands-on product delivery. He built low-latency, cloud-native pipelines and tooling for multimessenger astronomy that contributed to LIGO-era discoveries and invented a provisional patent-pending dynamic perfect hash table used to accelerate compute by orders of magnitude. At startups he shipped React/Django features, instituted organization-wide feature flags, and created infrastructure tools (ECShell) that saved developer hours while improving reliability for customer-facing admin systems. Comfortable across Python, C, Rust, SQL and cloud platforms, he pairs deep algorithmic thinking with strong documentation, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration. An entrepreneur and educator at heart, he routinely translates complex scientific and technical ideas for audiences ranging from middle schoolers to CEOs.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at Columbia University