Steven Magana-zook
Group Leader (Engineering Manager - Software Engineering And Data Science)
Folsom, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Magana-zook is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 15 years of experience architecting and delivering mission-critical systems across government labs, health tech, and private industry. As Group Leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory he manages a cross-disciplinary team of engineers and data scientists, blending empathetic people leadership with hands-on technical oversight of cloud-native, HPC, and ML pipelines. He has deep full-stack and backend expertise in Java, C#, Python, and C++, and a track record of building scalable data platforms (Hadoop, Spark, AWS, MongoDB) and production ML workflows for seismic analysis and protein design. Steven is also the solo creator of MetaMood, a cross-platform mobile app that reflects his interest in applying software to lived mental-health challenges and demonstrates end-to-end product delivery from architecture to user growth. Known for leading large refactors, CI/CD and microservices initiatives, he pairs research-grade data science with pragmatic engineering to meet tight performance and reliability goals. Based in Folsom, CA, he brings a rare mix of national-security scale data engineering and user-centered product experience.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at California State University - East BayCalifornia State University, Sacramento
English
Stackoverflow
2,752reputation
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45answers
7questions
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Github Skills (42)
hadoop9
unity-container9
inversion-of-control9
jar7
generics6
wpf6
encryption6
openjdk6
vbnet6
entity-framework6
java6
hadoop-yarn6
high-availability6
decomposition6
rijndael6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stevenmz/BBEdit-PigLatin
Dec 2014 - May 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 6 months
stevenmz/stevenmz.github.io
Jul 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:53 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
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