Summary
Steve Hunter is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience spanning Scala, Java, Ruby, TypeScript and C/C++, and a track record of adapting to startups, consulting, and larger product organizations. He has led technical teams at Rally Health as a Technical Lead, building Scala/Play services for healthcare cost transparency and improving on-call reliability, monitoring, and onboarding. Comfortable wearing many hats, he has delivered production systems across domains from crowdfunding and e-commerce to publishing and insurance, often learning new stacks quickly to meet client needs. Steve blends hands-on coding with people leadership—modeling the supportive managers he admired and evolving into a team lead who prioritizes mentorship and sustainable processes. Now at Reveal, he brings cross-stack pragmatism and deep operational ownership to fast-moving projects while still enjoying architecting clean, observable systems. A longtime Chicago technologist, he pairs an engineer’s curiosity (dating back to C/Unix internships) with practical delivery across decades of evolving web and backend platforms.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Radford University