Summary
Stephen Atwood is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of engineering experience and four years at Google on the Android Gradle Plugin team. He specializes in build systems, automated performance testing and regression detection for CI, and app packaging/deployment for Google Play, working across Java, Kotlin, Groovy, Bazel/Starlark and C++. Now at LinkedIn, he combines deep tooling expertise (Gradle, Bazel, IntelliJ/Android Studio) with a strong engineering foundation from dual degrees in Mathematics and Computer Software Engineering. Known for solving reproducibility and performance challenges in large-scale developer workflows, he brings pragmatic systems thinking to developer productivity and release pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at Auburn University