Steven Ford
Senior Software Engineer - ML Platform
Town of Smithtown, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Ford is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in ML platform and infrastructure with a decade of experience building resilient, cloud-native systems across startups, nonprofits, and research institutions. He has led teams and projects from design through deployment—launching Python/Django+React apps on AWS, designing scalable GraphQL and REST APIs, and implementing MLOps tooling with Sagemaker, MLflow, DVC, and GitHub Actions. Comfortable in polyglot environments (Python, C#, Java) and high-throughput systems, he’s solved performance bottlenecks in fleet-tracking pipelines and constructed custom UDP protocols when needed. A former Peace Corps volunteer who’s lived and worked across multiple countries, he brings cross-cultural collaboration and a practical, craft-focused approach to software delivery. Outside work he channels curiosity into stargazing, gardening, and hands-on DIY projects, reflecting a balance of systems thinking and grounded problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Penn State UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Michigan State University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
password-manager5
macos4
autotype3
objective-c3
keepass3
capstone3
android1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
evensteven01/apprentice-tutoring
May 2019 - May 2023
My tutoring site
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 3 years 11 months
javascriptreacttutoring
PSUSWENG894/TravisCI-Lambda
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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