Stephen Jensen
Senior Software Engineer at Prismatic
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Jensen is a senior full-stack engineer and technical leader with 11 years of experience building developer platforms, real-time data systems, and product-facing web apps across infrastructure, analytics, and controls. He has architected CI/CD workflows for 60+ distributed services, designed telemetry pipelines ingesting millions of metrics per second, and shipped user tools from optimization schedulers to financial modeling dashboards using Python, Go, React, and TypeScript. A former Ph.D. researcher in physical chemistry, he applies a rigorous data-modeling and experimental mindset to make complex systems scalable, reliable, and easy to use. He’s led and mentored cross-functional teams while remaining a hands-on contributor who builds developer tooling (Helm/Jinja2), secure customer UIs, and self-service APIs that eliminated manual operations. Based in Chicago, he’s exploring Staff Engineer or Engineering Manager roles focused on developer platforms, product infrastructure, or data systems, bringing both scientific curiosity and production-grade engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Deering High SchoolPhD Physical Chemistry, PhD Physical Chemistry at Harvard UniversityBS Chemistry, BS Chemistry at Tufts University
English
Github Skills (200)
authentication10
mouse10
hybrid10
javascript10
lambda-functions10
browser10
amplify10
keyboard10
api10
aws-amplify10
compiler10
static-site-generator10
storage10
typescript10
aws-lambda10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CaptainChemist/blog-prisma2
Jul 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 22 PRs, 24 pushes in 7 months
CaptainChemist/next-chop-v2
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:48 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 month
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