Summary
Stephanie Ratanas is a Lead Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale, high-throughput systems at Target, specializing in developer experience, real-time event tagging, and custom SIEM platforms. She combines hands-on expertise across distributed data pipelines, Elasticsearch/Kibana stacks, Kafka, and GraphQL-based microservices with a strong DevOps mindset to accelerate delivery and reliability. A proven technical leader, she mentors engineers and drives cross-functional initiatives that turn complex observability and analytics requirements into production-ready systems. Prior to engineering roles she ran operations and content for a specialty coffee business, bringing practical operations, vendor negotiation, and storytelling skills to technical program leadership. Based in Minneapolis, she pairs pragmatic engineering with systems-level thinking to make data and security tooling genuinely useful for analysts and developers.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Journalism, Creative Writing, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Journalism, Creative Writing at DePaul University
Full Stack Engineering, Full Stack Engineering at Prime Digital Academy
English, spanglish, French