Stephen Kawaguchi
Principal Engineer at ecobee
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolStephen Kawaguchi is a Principal Engineer in Toronto with over two decades of hands-on experience building reliable, high-performance distributed systems and guiding engineering transformations. He combines deep technical craft—Go, TypeScript, Python, cloud-native microservices, and telemetry—with pragmatic architecture practices that favor “boring” resilient designs and measurable outcomes like reduced lead time and improved SLOs. Stephen has led large re-architectures and platform builds for companies from John Deere and IBM to Ada and Flipp, often cutting defect rates dramatically and driving MTTR down via Game Days and blameless postmortems. He mentors Staff+ engineers, codifies decisions with ADRs, and quietly blends strategic planning with code-level contributions. Outside work he’s equally organized—he’ll referee distributed systems by day and a packed youth soccer schedule by night.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Design Interactive Design, Bachelor of Design Interactive Design at York University
English
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Github Skills (115)
bug-tracker10
testing10
test-framework10
assert10
runner10
javascript10
async10
ava10
cli10
tdd10
nodejs10
unit-testing10
test-runner10
cdn10
documentation-template10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
skawaguchi/skills-self-assessment
Jan 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:11 pushes in 3 years 7 months
IBM/sre-tdd-lab
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
IBM Open Labs SRE content
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 17 pushes in 8 months
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