Stephen Hurwitz
Senior Principal Engineer at F5 Networks
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Hurwitz is a Senior Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and delivering SaaS and cloud-native solutions, currently leading NGINX as a Service at F5 to simplify highly-available NGINX+ deployments. He translates product vision into pragmatic, scalable architectures and prototypes, pairing hands-on implementation with customer-facing requirements gathering to anticipate real-world needs. His background spans software architecture, e-commerce platforms, and modern web frameworks, with a history of improving developer workflows and operational robustness. Pragmatic and YAGNI-minded, he favors simple, maintainable systems that scale and has a track record of reducing complexity and vendor sprawl while boosting team capabilities. Based in Seattle, he blends product empathy with deep technical leadership across startups and enterprise environments.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Digital Media, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Digital Media at Drexel University
English
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Github Skills (104)
terraform10
bundler10
flask-extensions10
javascript10
json-converter10
azure10
json10
amd10
azure-resource-manager10
commonjs10
code-splitting10
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css-modules10
nodejs10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ornj/hurwitz.horse
Dec 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
ornj/hypernova-python
Nov 2016 - Mar 2020
Python client for Hypernova https://github.com/airbnb/hypernova
Contributions:30 commits, 10 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 years 4 months
airbnbhypernovapythonpython-client
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