Summary
Stephen Mullins is a Staff Engineer based in Chicago with 17 years of experience building reliable, data-driven distributed systems and observability platforms. He has held engineering leadership roles at Tempus, Signal, and VSCO, and led platform architecture and integration efforts at Yapta, including PCI-compliant services and travel GDS integrations. Stephen blends hands-on backend engineering (Python, RESTful services, MySQL, ETL/data warehouses) with team leadership and engineering quality practices like testing and code review. His background includes large-scale monitoring and alerting systems at Orbitz and a track record of solving data integrity issues and designing scalable service architectures. He is comfortable operating at the intersection of product, operations, and compliance, and brings a pragmatic focus on measurable system reliability. An engineer who likes to learn, he steadily moves between deep technical design and mentoring teams to execute it.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology