Steven Hicks
Member Of Consulting Staff at Oracle
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Hicks is a Principal-level software engineer and architect with 13+ years building resilient, cost-efficient distributed systems across healthcare, mapping, and data platforms. Currently on Oracle's consulting staff after leading critical initiatives at Optum, he has repeatedly translated complex business requirements into pragmatic architectures that cut costs (e.g., reducing infrastructure spend from $50k+/year to $8) and shrink operational burden (Priority 1 incidents down from 26 to 2). He specializes in Scala, functional patterns, Kafka, Kubernetes, and serverless tooling, and has a track record of fast, reliable service delivery—building a GraphQL service in two months that reduced client integration time from months to days. Steven is also a hands-on mentor who drives engineering culture change through RCA practices, architectural decision records, and cross-team knowledge sharing. Notably, his work has prevented major HIPAA risk by deploying Mapbox securely in Kubernetes and uncovered memory leaks that yielded dramatic runtime savings. Based in Chicago, he combines deep technical troubleshooting with strategic system design to deliver measurable business impact.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at University of North Carolina at CharlotteOrange High SchoolBachelors of Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Computer Science at Elon University
English, German
Stackoverflow
14,194reputation
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305answers
134questions
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
monksy/awesome-kafka
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
A list about Apache Kafka
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 4 years
kafka-streamsapache-kafkasinkapachepartition
monksy/serialization-checker
Dec 2018 - Sep 2020
This project is intended to run and verify that the examples provided (often times a folder full of JSONs) can deserialize against a particular object.
Contributions:2 reviews, 35 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 10 months
particulartimesserializationverifyscala
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