Summary
Stephen Turoscy is a Professional Services Manager who brings over a decade of hands-on full‑stack engineering and project leadership to data-intensive research environments at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. He designs and operates scalable, high‑availability infrastructures—from RESTful APIs and Kafka streaming pipelines to Elasticsearch and AWS ECS—powering federated climate and scientific data platforms across national labs and international partners. Stephen pairs deep backend skills (Python, Ruby, PostgreSQL/MongoDB) with frontend integration experience to deliver user-facing research tools and has led migrations from on‑prem to cloud using Terraform, Kubernetes and Ansible. His workshops at MIT, Princeton, UChicago and UMich reflect a commitment to community adoption of federated discovery systems. With an MS in Chemical Engineering and 15+ years of technical work plus decades of mentoring and leadership honed through martial arts instruction, he blends analytical rigor with disciplined team coaching. Notably, he has reduced latency and improved scalability for mission‑critical datasets by architecting real‑time publication pipelines and search replatforms.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Chemical Engineering, M.S., Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University