Summary
Stephen Tapper is a software engineer with eight years of experience building distributed systems and machine learning-enabled infrastructure across major tech platforms. He has designed and operated backend services at Google (ads, Android Auto, payments), scaled SQL Server workloads for Amazon RDS, and now contributes to infrastructure and ML work at Meta. Comfortable in high-scale, production environments, he blends deep systems thinking with product-focused delivery and database expertise. Based in the Denver area and grounded in a Georgia Tech CS education, he brings a track record of shipping reliable, data-driven systems at top tech firms and an affinity for solving complex integration challenges that sit between ML models and backend services.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology