Summary
Stephen Bartell is a Staff Software Engineer in Orlando with 13 years of experience building secure, customer-facing APIs and cloud-native services, currently driving security-focused platform work at Fastly. He favors Go (with Rust increasingly in the mix) and has a strong background in designing deployment topology and automation across AWS, ECS, Jenkins and Terraform. His career spans startups and larger firms—Signal Sciences, MediaAlpha, Katch, and others—where he combined backend API design, serverless patterns, and compliance-minded engineering (HIPAA/PCI). Not immediately obvious from titles: he began in hardware-oriented electrical engineering, which informs a systems-level approach to reliability and cost optimization.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
AS, Math, AS, Math at Antelope Valley College
BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara