Summary
Steven Lacerda is a pragmatic support-focused engineer with eight years of hands-on experience troubleshooting distributed systems, currently a Premium Support Engineer at DataStax specializing in Cassandra, Spark, and Solr. He brings a full-stack background—C#, Node.js, Java, and JavaScript—combined with field experience building data-visualization web apps that integrate GIS, Mongo/Cassandra backends, and multithreaded processing. Comfortable moving between customer-facing problem solving and backend engineering, he’s learned Java internals, SSL tooling, and Linux networking to resolve complex production issues. Based in Morgan Hill, CA, he’s actively expanding into Kubernetes and Cassandra operators to bridge support and cloud-native operations. Outside work he balances code with hiking and biking, reflecting a practical, hands-on approach to engineering and life.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at UCSB