Steve Song
Principal Developer at Hootsuite
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSteve Song is a Principal Developer based in Vancouver with 11 years of hands-on experience architecting reliable, extensible cloud systems and integrating AI companions into practical workflows. Having risen through multiple engineering and staff roles at Hootsuite, he blends deep platform-level thinking with day-to-day delivery, mentoring teams while shaping scalable architectures. His background spans C++ systems for aerospace and civil engineering to Java, Android, and cloud-native services, showing comfort across low-level algorithms and modern web APIs. Steve’s practice emphasizes testable, automated delivery—TDD/BDD and CI/CD were recurring themes since his early work in healthcare and enterprise software. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex domain requirements into maintainable systems that balance human and machine collaborators.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (34)
akka-persistence9
backend9
persistence8
scala8
akka8
circuit8
redis8
health-check7
udid6
explore6
azure-functions6
sbt-plugin5
react5
api5
consumption5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hootsuite/akka-persistence-redis
Aug 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:12 releases, 35 commits, 32 PRs in 5 years 4 months
redisscalabackendakkaakka-persistence
hootsuite/sbt-swagger
Apr 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 push, 7 comments, 1 issue in 3 years 5 months
to-jsonapiannotationssbt-pluginjax
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