Steve Whitmire is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building secure, cloud-native enterprise systems for defense and government clients. He excels across the full stack—designing modular React front ends, Python and Node.js backends, and containerized deployments on Kubernetes and AWS—while specializing in authentication, session management, and dynamic RBAC. At the Defense Contractor he modernized a high-visibility Army testing platform with WebSocket-driven real-time communications and creative NGINX/Lua routing to S3-backed test assets. His background includes migrating legacy data with custom ETL services and integrating smart-card authentication for Joint Chiefs–level systems, demonstrating a blend of hands-on coding and system-level security thinking. Based in Virginia Beach, he’s known for mentoring junior engineers and translating complex operational requirements into maintainable, auditable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University
C# .NET console application that downloads and stores stock market quotes.
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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Steve Whitmire - Senior Software Engineer at Defense Contractor