Summary
Stephen Belcher is a seasoned computer programmer and database administrator with 22 years of experience building and maintaining data systems for large facilities, including a 9-million square foot hospital and research complex. He has deep hands-on expertise with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Sequel/ActiveRecord APIs, and scripting in Ruby, Perl, VB, and Bash, and regularly uses SVN and git in production workflows. Stephen has managed small teams and rapidly resolved issues for time-sensitive, accreditation-driven projects for the National Institutes of Health, combining practical engineering with operational discipline. Unusually for a developer, he brings formal conservatory training as a professional harpist, a background that contributes to his attention to detail, collaborative rehearsal mindset, and comfort working in high-stakes, performance-oriented environments. Based in Baltimore, he currently applies this blend of technical rigor and artistic discipline to ongoing programming and database work.
22 years of coding experience
Johns Hopkins University