Stephen Baidu
Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Baidu is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack and machine learning-infused systems, now focused on service mesh and infrastructure reliability at Snap Inc. He blends deep backend expertise in Java, C#, Ruby, and Go with modern front-end and API skills (React, Svelte, GraphQL) and hands-on cloud-native practice across AWS and GCP. Stephen has a proven track record designing scalable microservices and serverless platforms, and has led teams and technical recruitment while shipping high-throughput ads and platform services. His background spans startups to hyperscale companies (Microsoft, Snap), with earlier work integrating telecom charging systems and building enterprise-grade Rails APIs. He brings a pragmatic TDD/CI-CD discipline and operational mindset—comfortable moving ML prototypes toward production in distributed environments. Based in Redmond, he pairs system-level thinking with an appetite for mentoring and onboarding engineering talent.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
English
Stackoverflow
31reputation
625reached
1answer
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Github Skills (110)
python10
location10
sneakers10
token-based-authentication9
api9
authentication9
google-maps9
heroku9
deep-learning9
omniauth9
bootstrap9
machine-learning9
docker9
css9
sass9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
stephenbaidu/church-membership
Jan 2016 - May 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
stephenbaidu/android-place-picker
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
Android PlacePicker similar to that of Google Maps' location search
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
similarplacepickerandroid-libraryandroidlocation
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