Stephen Olesen is a Principal Software Architect with over three decades of hands-on technology experience and 17 years in senior software leadership roles, currently shaping architecture at Microsoft while running Vocti Corp. He blends deep infrastructure knowledge—from datacentres, telephony and embedded systems to distributed microservices—with entrepreneurial experience as a founder and CTO. Known for tackling problems of scale and depth, he pairs pragmatic engineering with mentorship, helping teams translate complex systems into clean, maintainable designs. His hobbies—astrophotography, electronics, amateur radio and aviation—aren’t just pastimes but sources of systems-thinking that inform his approach to reliability and observability. Based in Edmonton, Alberta, he brings a rare combination of hardware fluency and cloud-native software expertise that helps bridge edge-to-cloud solutions.
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Stephen Olesen - Principal Software Architect at Vocti Corp.