Steven Lombardi
Senior Software Engineer at Centripetal
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Lombardi is a senior software engineer based in Phoenix with roughly a decade of hands-on experience building resilient backend systems and integration frameworks for security and enterprise search domains. He has driven significant performance and footprint improvements on the open-source DDF project—cutting distribution size and startup time dramatically—while contributing cross-platform build fixes and configuration persistence features. At Guaranteed Rate he scaled and modernized a high-throughput OneLoan platform on AWS, introducing patterns that improved testability and local developer experience. Comfortable leading technical efforts, mentoring engineers, and owning roadmaps, he blends deep systems-level knowledge (OSGi, Karaf, distributed config) with pragmatic product-focused delivery. A practical tinkerer, he’s also built streaming tooling and a JavaFX overlay for live sports broadcasts, showing an appetite for creative, end-to-end solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Arizona State University
English
Github Skills (9)
javas10
configuration-management10
osgi10
java10
testing10
api-design9
persistence9
cross-platform8
multiplatform8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
codice/ddf
Dec 2015 - Apr 2021
DDF Distributed Data Framework - an open source, modular integration framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:87 reviews, 112 commits, 141 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Steven's contributions primarily focused on adding, enhancing, and refining existing backend API features, especially related to managing configuration in the DDF framework. They implemented a new migratable API module. There is also work related to supporting the persistence and access to existing configuration files. Several commits involved fixing Windows build issues, indicating the user has made improvements to the platform's cross-platform compatibility. These efforts also involved updating and adding tests to ensure the stability of the application.
codicecssosgisaml2framework
Lambeaux/ddf
Dec 2015 - May 2021
The Distributed Data Framework - Distribution, SDK, and Test
Contributions:8 PRs, 1000 pushes, 320 branches in 5 years 6 months
sdkbig-datadistributed-systemsdatabasekafka
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