Stephen Blackmore
Lead Software Engineer at Guardian Life
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Blackmore is a Lead Software Engineer in Boston with nine years of professional experience building scalable backend systems, DevOps pipelines, and optimized databases for high-throughput environments. He has a track record modernizing legacy platforms and delivering greenfield microservices—most notably contributing to Wayfair’s Product Cache and Change Tracking Service using C#, Kafka, Aerospike, and Kubernetes. Stephen pairs hands-on engineering with customer-facing communication, enabling pragmatic solutions that balance performance, reliability, and user needs. He is an advocate for automation and infrastructure-as-code, with practical experience in Docker, Terraform, ECS/Fargate and CI/CD improvements that sped delivery cycles. An open-source contributor to the DDF project, he focuses on code quality and security fixes, demonstrating a detail-oriented approach to long-lived systems. His background in music technology and signal processing hints at a deep curiosity for complex data problems and analytics-driven design.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.M Music Technology, M.M Music Technology at New York UniversityB.A Philosophy Political Science, B.A Philosophy Political Science at College of CharlestonPorter-Gaud
Github Skills (9)
javas10
osgi10
ddf10
sonarqube10
java10
configurations9
testing8
css4
saml4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
codice/ddf
Oct 2017 - Jul 2018
DDF Distributed Data Framework - an open source, modular integration framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 11 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Stephen focused on resolving SonarQube critical bug findings, addressing vulnerabilities in the DDF framework by reverting and modifying code changes. They made several code adjustments in core API modules, including modifying data structures and access modifiers, impacting various operations like create, delete, and update requests. Additionally, the user updated the admin UI configuration by removing obsolete fields and corrected a unit test error. These contributions demonstrate a focus on code quality, bug fixes, and UI improvements within the project.
codicecssosgisaml2framework
sblackmore/ddf
Oct 2017 - Jul 2018
Distributed Data Framework - an open source, modular integration framework.
Contributions:9 PRs, 24 pushes, 22 branches in 9 months
frameworkintegration-frameworkbig-datasparkmodular
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