Summary
Steffan Fay is a retired software professional with three decades of SDLC experience and a 15-year recent track record delivering Microsoft-centric, client-server and browser-based solutions. He has deep expertise across UI design, application architecture, database design and performance tuning, with a particular strength in services and system integration. His career spans hands-on development, team and release leadership, and independent consulting for sectors including energy metering, utilities, and industrial device monitoring. Notable projects include designing self-synchronizing device networks and shipping RESTful microservices for the world’s largest smart meter deployment in Tokyo. Comfortable across C#, .NET, SQL and modern web stacks, he blends pragmatic engineering with production-minded tooling and automation. Based in Costa Rica, he pairs technical breadth with a background in environmental modeling, reflecting an uncommon mix of systems thinking and applied science.
16 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at University of Minnesota
BSc, BSc at Imperial College London