Summary
Stephen Scaffidi is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 18 years of experience designing, operating, and migrating large-scale distributed systems for companies like Cloudera, Chewy, HERE Technologies, and TripAdvisor. He specializes in bridging the traditional gaps between development and operations through pragmatic engineering, strong IaC practices (Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes), and observability-driven cost and reliability improvements. Notable achievements include leading an on-prem to AWS migration, architecting a multi-petabyte data warehouse, and delivering a vendor-constrained high-availability cloud migration that others had been unable to complete. Stephen is known for rapid technology ramp-up, mentoring and onboarding SREs across distributed teams, and translating complex technical trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders. He combines practical security and compliance experience (ISO-9001, SOC2, SOX) with a track record of reducing cloud spend and operational toil. Based in Wakefield, MA, he brings a creative, pragmatic mindset that consistently turns messy legacy environments into robust, auditable platforms.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
UMass Lowell
English