Stephen Baynham
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Baynham is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable systems across startups and large tech companies, currently working on manipulation eligibility at Amazon Robotics in Seattle. He has held senior roles at Clipboard Health, Gridwise, Stripe, Dropbox and Twitch, where he built high-throughput reporting pipelines and operated critical data infrastructure. Stephen blends backend systems engineering, Go and Kubernetes platform work, and .NET-to-cloud migrations—having led the accounts system for Wizards of the Coast and mentored teams adopting new technologies. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core DFHack tooling for Dwarf Fortress by refactoring job removal logic and adding Lua bindings, showing a knack for low-level, stability-focused fixes. He’s known for shipping reliable production services, mentoring peers, and quietly tackling gnarly edge cases that improve system robustness.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Coppell High School
English
Stackoverflow
116reputation
4kreached
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Github Skills (14)
dfm10
c-language10
dfu10
cprogramming-language10
dfd10
dwarf10
fortress10
dfa10
lua8
data-structure7
data-structures7
algorithm7
algorithms7
captcha6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
DFHack/dfhack
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Memory hacking library for Dwarf Fortress and a set of tools that use it
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on implementing and refactoring the `removeJob` functionality within the DFHack project. This involved adding Lua bindings for the function, disconnecting job items and general references, and cleaning up the `job_items` vector. They also made several changes to improve the overall logic, including refactoring methods and adding return values for error handling and refactoring methods. These changes are crucial for managing and removing jobs, potentially enhancing the mod's stability and functionality.
memorydwarfdfhackdwarf-fortressmemory-hacking
TechnicPack/LauncherCore
Oct 2013 - Jan 2016
LauncherCore - API Connection and Services
Contributions:290 commits, 4 PRs, 88 pushes in 2 years 3 months
apiconnection
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