Steve Durham
Principal Software Engineer at Emerald Cloud Lab
South San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSteve Durham is a Principal Software Engineer based in South San Francisco with nine years focused on modern full-stack and cloud-native systems and a much longer history in low-latency C++ and hardware-interfacing work. He currently leads frontend modernization at Emerald Cloud Lab using React, Redux, Redux-Saga and nw.js, and previously architected complex SPAs and Google Cloud data pipelines as a partner at Acrospire. Steve’s background spans high-frequency trading engines, market data feeds and custom networking acceleration (SolarFlare/Myricom), reflecting deep systems-level expertise alongside polished UI work. He combines database design (Postgres, MongoDB, BigQuery) and cloud ops (GKE, Kubernetes, Docker) with hands-on experience in Python, ClojureScript and ES6. Comfortable moving between assembly-optimized signal processing and rich single-page apps, he’s notable for translating hardware and protocol complexity into reliable, maintainable software. His West Point electrical engineering foundation underpins a pragmatic engineering style that favors performance, observability, and careful migrations of legacy systems.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE Electrical Engineering focused on computer design, BSEE Electrical Engineering focused on computer design at United States Military Academy at West PointExchange Cadet - Fall Semester, Exchange Cadet - Fall Semester at US Coast Guard Academy
Github Skills (16)
openjdk10
jvm10
java10
persistent-memory9
low-level8
persistence7
collections7
json7
memory-management7
persistent7
json-parser6
in-memory6
simd5
jekyll4
hugo3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
steveatgh/jdk
Nov 2023 - Sep 2024
JDK main-line development https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk
Contributions:49 pushes, 10 branches in 10 months
steveatgh/babylon
Mar 2024 - Sep 2024
https://openjdk.org/projects/babylon
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.