Stephen Cprek
Staff Software Engineer at Favor Delivery
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Cprek is a Staff Software Engineer in Austin with 11 years of experience building backend systems and improving developer productivity. He has advanced expertise in containerized microservices, Kubernetes, and performance tuning from roles at IBM and Favor Delivery, where he progressed from Software Engineer II to Staff. His work spans optimizing deep learning containers, solving GPU sharing challenges, and designing API limiting and audit logging to reduce costs and scale customer adoption. He has a strong background in firmware and secure boot for IBM POWER systems, contributing to OpenPOWER and automating release pipelines to cut defects and speed delivery. Known for mentoring teams on Docker, Helm, Elastic Stack, and CI/CD, he blends hands-on engineering with operational rigor. Based in Austin and trained at the University of Michigan, he brings a pragmatic focus on cost-efficient, observable systems that accelerate developer velocity.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (149)
api-client10
firmware10
swagger10
cookiecutter10
instrumentation10
infrastructure10
dx10
rest-client10
openapi-generator10
opentelemetry10
serverless10
rest-api10
microservices10
openapi10
buildroot10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
scprek/op-build
Feb 2015 - Aug 2019
Buildroot overlay for Open Power
Contributions:5 PRs, 19 pushes, 14 branches in 4 years 6 months
buildrootpoweroverlay
scprek/gerrit-h2-mysql
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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