Stephen Pope
Software Engineer - Platform
Albuquerque-Santa Fe Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolStephen Pope is a seasoned software engineer focused on platform engineering with 30+ years of hands-on experience delivering high-performance systems for quantitative trading, scientific research, and HPC environments. He excels at integrating disparate platforms, languages, and data streams—building and operating low-microsecond market data feeds, a 200TB+ historical tick database, and order management/risk systems used in live trading. Comfortable from kernel and network tuning to C++, Java, and Python application design, he is the go-to troubleshooter for complex, hard-to-isolate problems and has led small technical teams through mission-critical projects. His career spans national labs and startups alike, combining deep systems-level expertise with a pragmatic focus on reliability and operational scale. An early adopter of data-parallel and high-performance computing concepts, he brings both research curiosity and production discipline to platform engineering.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
French, Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
client-library10
python-client10
limiting9
python9
bazel-rules9
ssh9
rust8
bazel8
rustdoc8
rust-lang7
rate-limiting7
memcached7
flask7
restlet6
flask-extensions6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
descarteslabs/descarteslabs-python
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
Descartes Labs Python Client Library
Contributions:48 releases, 3 reviews, 204 commits in 4 years 2 months
client-librarypythonpython-labspython-client
descarteslabs/flask-limiter
Nov 2018 - Sep 2021
rate limiting extension for flask applications
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
limitingflaskpythonrate-limiting
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