Stephen Link
Software Engineer at Jane Street
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Link is a software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable systems across data and platform teams, currently contributing at Jane Street in New York. He progressed through senior and staff engineering roles at Databricks and Alteryx, bringing deep expertise in platform architecture and production-grade distributed systems. His background spans industry domains from scientific application development at Monsanto to mapping and location services at HERE, reflecting an ability to translate domain complexity into reliable software. Known for pragmatic problem-solving—his own summary: “I solve problems”—he pairs that mindset with hands-on architecture work and mentoring across teams. Stephen’s training in biomedical engineering gives him a quantitative, systems-oriented perspective that informs his approach to design and performance trade-offs. He combines startup agility from ClearStory Data with enterprise-grade rigor from larger tech firms, making him effective at shipping robust infrastructure under real-world constraints.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (79)
fault-tolerance10
mesosphere10
sbt-plugin9
feature-engineering9
feature-selection9
cron9
chronos9
sbt9
automated-machine-learning9
fault-tolerant9
fault9
sbt-docker8
job-scheduler8
python8
gcp8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alteryx/chronos
Sep 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
fault-tolerantdependenciesfaultschedulerschedules
alteryx/chronos-pkg
Oct 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 3 months
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