Steve Perkins
Principal Software Engineer at Verusen
Duluth, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Perkins is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and delivering enterprise integration and web platforms across startups and Fortune 500 environments. He leads API and microservice architectures—most recently building Java Spring Boot services, OAuth/SAML identity, and BI integrations for a data-science inventory platform—while also shipping Python/Kubernetes solutions and Snowflake-backed data pipelines. A proven technical leader, he has guided distributed teams, standardized SaaS/on‑prem integrations, and driven adoption of load testing and operational best practices. Author of "Hibernate Search by Example," a regular conference presenter, and an active GitHub maintainer (steve-perkins), he combines deep Java expertise with practical experience in messaging, cloud services, and data engineering. Unusually, he also holds a J.D., reflecting an ability to navigate technical work with attention to compliance and contractual nuance.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Georgia Southwestern State UniversityJ.D., Law, J.D., Law at Georgia State University
Github Skills (31)
diet10
java-client9
spring-boot8
vault8
hashicorp8
java8
hashicorp-vault8
clustering7
spring7
mysql6
database5
scale5
spring-security5
kubernetes5
vitess4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
steve-perkins/hibernate-search-demo
Mar 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 5 months
steve-perkins/GoAutocomplete
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 10 days
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