Summary
Stephen Roberts is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, secure systems and leading engineering teams from startup to enterprise. He blends hands-on full-stack expertise—React, Node.js, distributed databases, serverless and cloud IaC—with a pragmatic architecture-first mindset that prioritizes business outcomes over one-size-fits-all tech choices. As a founding principal engineer he designed a novel micro-frontend approach and a custom distributed graph database to solve data ownership, compliance, and scale for AudiencePlus, and has led platform transformations at DaVita enabling self-service GCP adoption. He excels at managing complexity through clear decomposition, automation, and just-enough design, and is known for fostering ownership, mentorship, and reproducible delivery practices like everything-as-code. Based in Denver, he combines product-minded engineering with a track record of turning long-term vision into low-cost, high-availability reality.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at University of South Alabama
Cottage Hill Christian Academy
English