Summary
Stephen Strnad is a data engineering leader with eight years of experience who now serves as Director of Data Engineering at Civitas Learning in the Austin area. He blends a customer-focused sales background with deep hands-on skills in SQL, ETL, and data modeling to deliver reliable integrations and analytics platforms for complex, multi-application data models. Known for rapid learning and practical process improvements, he has a track record of mentoring teams, running deployments, and codifying internal best practices as he moved from individual contributor to director. His career began in sales and customer-facing roles, which informs a pragmatic approach to stakeholder communication and requirements validation that reduces rework. Stephen holds data science and programming certificates and brings an engineer-manager mindset summed up by “measure twice, cut once.”
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Python SQL Algorithms and Statistics, Python SQL Algorithms and Statistics at Coursera
High School, High School at Gunn High School
Certificate Data Science, Certificate Data Science at Galvanize Inc
Bachelor's degree Economics, Bachelor's degree Economics at UC Santa Barbara
Spanish