Steve Rice
Principal Software Engineer at Pinterest
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Rice is a Principal Software Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience leading API platforms, systems architecture, and large-scale technology migrations. Currently the tech lead for Pinterest’s API platform and its transition to GraphQL, he previously executed one of the largest zero-downtime Python 2→3 migrations powering the Pinner experience. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and an organizational coach, he has driven API, backend, and developer-productivity initiatives across startups and scale-ups like Brigade and PagerDuty. He’s known for making GraphQL adoption practical for teams and for building internal tools and conventions that reduce friction and accelerate delivery. A pragmatic mentor and systems thinker, he pairs deep technical ownership with a track record of improving developer workflows and product outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Binghamton UniversityAdvanced Regents Diploma with Honors, Advanced Regents Diploma with Honors at Williamsville East High School
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Github Skills (200)
json-schema10
opencore10
oas10
specification10
monkey-patching10
openapi10
flawfinder10
isort10
rest10
protobuf10
phabricator10
checker10
arcanist10
test-unit10
facebook10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
PagerDuty/api-versions
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 8 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 3 months
apirails-apirailsendpointsruby
pinterest/graphql-lint-rules
Dec 2020 - Jun 2022
Pinterest GraphQL Lint Rules
Contributions:2 releases, 7 reviews, 27 commits in 1 year 6 months
linterlinteslintpinterestgraphql
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