Steve Messina
Semi Retired at Self
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Messina is a seasoned systems architect and hands-on engineering leader with over three decades of experience delivering end-to-end client/server and web applications across news, finance, telecom, healthcare, and publishing. He excels at translating business needs into pragmatic architectures, leading small-to-medium teams, and combining modern middleware and scalability patterns—most recently building the election night front-ends and backend microservices for NBC News. Deep systems roots at Bell Labs and early telecom/IP device work inform his rare fluency from UNIX kernel and device drivers through multi-tier enterprise stacks and handheld applications. Comfortable as a developer or technical director, he prefers solving hard integration and performance problems rather than conventional Java/Spring work. Based in New York, he now semi-retired but continues to consult and architect solutions that bridge legacy systems and contemporary cloud-native approaches.
14 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
BS Applied Mathematics, BS Applied Mathematics at Columbia University
Stackoverflow
79reputation
3kreached
2answers
6questions
Github Skills (35)
procedural-generation9
blender9
python7
chef-infra6
vagrant6
game-development6
jruby6
nodejs6
amazon-ec26
3d6
cryptography6
puppet6
code-signing6
cascading6
hadoop6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
velniukas/blockly.cascading.jruby
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
velniukas/GoGadgetCloud
Aug 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:29 commits in 2 days
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