Steve Wainstead
Staff Software Engineer at Diligent
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Wainstead is a Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building distributed, data-intensive microservices and cloud-native systems. He currently focuses on multi-cloud architectures, Kubernetes, API development, observability, and cybersecurity, with hands-on experience in NodeJS, AWS CDK/SDK, Terraform, Docker and Fastify. Steve has delivered at scale for organizations including The New York Times, Forbes, Advance Publications and Diligent, and has led both engineering teams and consulting engagements for startups and nonprofits. An active open-source maintainer and project founder (notably PhpWiki and Waverous LambdaMOO), he blends software craftsmanship with pragmatic agility across Scrum and Kanban workflows. Beyond software, he spent a decade as a radio producer — a collection of his programs is archived in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — reflecting a long-standing curiosity for storytelling and archival systems. Based in Charlotte, NC, he brings a rare mix of legacy systems experience and modern cloud-native practice to solving observability and distributed programming challenges.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Science at Cleveland State University
Hungarian
Github Skills (34)
expressjs10
anonymous10
docx10
inheritance10
multiple-inheritance10
translation9
json9
browser9
api9
nodejs9
react9
angular8
crypto8
restful8
moo8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wainstead/swainlisp
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:41 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
wainstead/waverous
Jun 2009 - Aug 2017
Contributions:267 commits, 4 pushes in 8 years 3 months
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