Stephen Whittier
CEO & Founder at North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Whittier is a seasoned software engineering leader and founder with 11 years of formal leadership experience and a long history of hands-on development dating back to the late 1990s. Based in Atlanta, he builds and scales highly available, cloud-hosted systems—driving migrations to microservices, CI/CD, and sprint-based releases across AWS and Azure. He’s led cross-functional teams at enterprise scale (Pearson, Revel, Perficient) while also founding Greenleaf Technical Solutions and consulting for NERC, blending strategic product partnership with technical execution. Known for prioritizing culture, communication, and mentorship as much as code quality and documentation, he routinely architects standards for logging, monitoring, and security operationalization. A pragmatic technologist, he moves teams from quarterly to continuous delivery and has a background in applied mathematics that informs data-driven decisions.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
Github Skills (5)
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Github contributions (5)
swhittier/BT
Feb 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:60 commits, 90 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
swhittier/MAX
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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