Steven Fleming is a purpose-driven senior staff engineer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building scalable SaaS and e-commerce systems, currently based in Virginia. He helped design and ship reverse-logistics platforms at Optoro that diverted millions of pounds of waste from landfills while ramping peak throughput to 55K returns per day and cutting client onboarding costs by 75%. Comfortable across the stack, he has led migrations from monoliths to service architectures and shipped real-time inventory systems that reduced oversells by 99%. Steven combines hands-on technical execution with empathetic people leadership, having managed distributed teams, supported multiple engineering managers, and maintained a culture of psychological safety and clear communication. He thrives in high-growth, impact-focused environments where engineering choices translate directly to environmental and business outcomes. Outside of engineering leadership, his early work building custom D3 visualizations and tooling shows a longstanding appetite for turning complex data into actionable interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Salisbury School
H-B Woodlawn
Bachelor's degree, Geology, Bachelor's degree, Geology at Whitman College
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Steven Fleming - Senior Staff Engineer at Blue Yonder