Stephen Ritchie
Senior Engineering Manager at ICF
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Ritchie is a seasoned engineering leader with 14+ years in software and a decades-long career advancing teams from hands-on development to executive engineering roles. He combines deep technical craft—TDD, refactoring, CI/CD, ensemble programming—and fluency in C#/.NET, Python, and TypeScript with a people-first management style focused on mentoring, coaching, and rapid decision-making. Stephen has led engineering organizations as VP and Director, written Pro .NET Best Practices, and continues to codify practical techniques that raise team productivity and software quality. He excels at transforming team dynamics through collaboration, prioritization, and effective planning so organizations become more adaptive and engaged. Based in Ashburn, VA, he blends academic rigor (Caltech BS) with real-world delivery across startups and consulting, often surfacing process changes that yield measurable velocity gains.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BA Chemistry Physics, BA Chemistry Physics at Bowdoin CollegeGraduate-level coursework toward MS in Project Management, Graduate-level coursework toward MS in Project Management at The George Washington University School of BusinessSt Andrew's College, DublinSt. Anselm's Abbey SchoolCalifornia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (13)
jenkins6
build-pipelines6
continuous-delivery6
gradle6
testing5
evaluation5
jwt3
authentication3
capybara2
cypress2
python2
microservices1
test-framework1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ruthlesshelp/qa-cypress-eval
May 2019 - Aug 2021
QA automated testing evaluation project using Cypress.io
Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
automated-testingtestingevaluationcypresscypress-io
ruthlesshelp/learning-journal
Jul 2013 - Nov 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 4 years 5 months
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