Stephen Howell
Lead Platform Engineer
Clovis, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Howell is a Lead Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and delivering platforms that power fulfillment, supply chain, and developer workflows. He combines a creative, craft-oriented approach to software with strong systems thinking—equally comfortable shaping front-end experiences and back-end infrastructure. At Stitch Fix he led org-wide best practice improvements, mentored engineers, and drove cross-team initiatives from estimation through production and on-call support. Prior experience integrating ERP and order systems at Nike and building internal full-stack apps in higher education gives him a pragmatic perspective on end-to-end systems. Based in Clovis, CA, he brings a hands-on leadership style that emphasizes tooling, developer enablement, and knowledge transfer (including training teams in new languages). Outside obvious technical chops, he treats software as both art and engineering, seeking creative solutions to operational problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at George Fox UniversityMusic, Music at Simpson University
Welsh, English, French
Github Skills (115)
postgresql10
python10
schema10
migrate10
code-generator10
sql10
database-migration10
database10
database-migrations10
sqlite10
mysql10
sql-migrations10
sql-generation10
kotlin10
migration10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
linux2647/linux2647.github.io
Dec 2018 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 4 months
linux2647/gimme-aws-creds
Dec 2018 - Apr 2021
A CLI that utilizes Okta IdP via SAML to acquire temporary AWS credentials
Contributions:1 push, 6 branches in 2 years 4 months
saml-toaws-cliidpsamlokta
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