Summary
Stephen Toon is a pragmatic Python/Django engineer with 15 years of software experience who transitioned from game modding to professional development after consulting with Valve on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. He has led backend efforts, designed PostgreSQL triggers and stored procedures, and built ETL pipelines and custom data import tools to integrate third-party systems reliably. At Intelity he deepened his cloud skills working with AWS SNS/SQS, Flask, and MongoDB, and has experience adapting systems through organizational change and layoffs. Now based in Indiana and working in client services, he combines hands-on coding chops with a customer-facing mindset that helps translate business needs into maintainable technical solutions. A longtime tinkerer who began by writing Python mods for games, he brings curiosity and practical problem-solving to legacy integrations and data workflows.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer