Summary
Stephen Reader is a senior software engineer and engineering lead with nine years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and APIs, currently driving engineering at Lendio from Lehi, Utah. He has deep practical experience across React, Angular, Node.js, PHP/Laravel, and AWS serverless technologies, and has led teams through modernizations such as migrating Angular to React and rolling out microservices. Stephen combines technical delivery with people leadership—moving from individual contributor to team lead and engineering lead within Lendio—while focusing on reliable, customer-facing systems used by enterprise clients. Notably, he’s balanced rapid feature delivery with platform modernization, having implemented state management, rebuilt legacy apps, and authored production Node/Lambda APIs that power business-critical workflows. His background in software engineering plus minors in business management and computer science give him a pragmatic, product-minded approach to architecting scalable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Provo High School
Minor Business Management, Minor Business Management at Utah Valley University