Steven Atkinson
Senior Software Engineer In Delivery Engineering. (L5) at Netflix
Morgan Hill, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Atkinson is a senior software engineer and delivery engineering leader with over two decades of experience building secure, high-performance consumer web systems. He cut his teeth as an early engineer at LinkedIn and later led security, performance and cost-reduction initiatives at Netflix’s DVD business, driving a 90% backend consolidation and $500k+ legacy savings while improving resilience and response times. Equally at home in startups and enterprise, he has been a founding CTO, earned two patents for WebSocket innovations, and architected authentication and client-side encryption that eliminated card-data leakage. As an adjunct instructor at Virginia Tech he designs practical AI-in-software curricula and doubled enrollment for his courses, blending production experience with pedagogy. Based in Morgan Hill, CA, he combines systems thinking, hands-on refactoring, and a focus on measurable business outcomes to simplify complex platforms and ship reliable, scalable products.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at The University of Queensland
English, australian
Stackoverflow
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websocket
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Github Skills (40)
rewrite9
websocket9
gateway9
fluent-api8
ejb8
amazon7
gdi7
lombok7
intellij-idea7
configuration-management7
html6
tibco-ems6
api6
nodejs6
rest6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nowucca/GreaterGoodsGrocers
May 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:60 commits, 39 pushes, 14 branches in 11 months
nowucca/greater-goods-client
Sep 2019 - May 2023
Client side Vue.js application
Contributions:1 release, 7 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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