Stephen Stack
Staff Software Engineer at SmartThings
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Stack is a Staff Software Engineer with 11–13 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, high-throughput systems and leading cross-functional teams from both hands-on and strategic perspectives. He has a strong track record of improving performance and reliability—driving up to 90% latency improvements, standardizing CI/CD and infra practices that saved tens of thousands per month, and reducing incidents through careful migrations and observability. Comfortable in production code and architecture alike, he has built platform-agnostic rule engines in Rust that run on both AWS and embedded IoT devices, designed multi-region and CQRS-backed APIs for regulated domains, and led teams of 20+ engineers. Based in Minneapolis, he blends pragmatic business focus with deep technical involvement, mentoring engineers, building shared libraries, and continually shipping production-quality systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Software Engineering at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Winona State University
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Github Skills (105)
tuya10
handlers10
actix-web10
esp3210
web-development10
iot-application10
async10
upnp10
tasmota10
hue10
smartthings10
iot10
zwave10
zigbee10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
swstack/algos
Jan 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:13 pushes in 4 years 5 months
swstack/msse
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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