Steven Bayer
Senior Software Engineer at Elevate Healthcare
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Bayer is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with 10 years of experience building backend systems and cloud services across companies from AWS to healthcare and media. He combines hands-on Java backend work—evidenced by contributions to the OpenSearch Data Prepper project, including refactoring, deprecations, and Docker publishing helpers—with practical production experience at scale. Comfortable in both individual contributor and architectural roles, he has moved between startups and large enterprises (iHeartMedia, H-E-B, AWS) delivering reliable, maintainable systems. Known for a collaborative, growth-minded approach, he seeks roles where continual learning and team problem-solving drive impactful outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
high school diploma Computer Science, high school diploma Computer Science at Central North Syracuse High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Onondaga Community College
Github Skills (8)
javas10
ingest10
java10
opensearch9
docker8
dockers8
analytics8
testing7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/data-prepper
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
OpenSearch Data Prepper is a component of the OpenSearch project that accepts, filters, transforms, enriches, and routes data at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:246 reviews, 54 commits, 119 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the OpenSearch Data Prepper project. Their work included modifying Java code, as evidenced by the "Fix PrepperState javadoc" commit, as well as refactoring file path handling within various plugins, switching from `Path.of` to `Paths.get`. Furthermore, the user was heavily involved in the deprecation of the "prepper" configurations in favor of "processor", including code refactoring and documentation updates. Lastly, they enhanced the codebase by adding support for a docker helper script for publishing to container registries.
tracesanalyticsprepperfiltersobservability
sbayer55/prezto
Aug 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:47 pushes in 7 years 7 months
shellconfiguration-frameworkzsh-pluginzsh
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