Summary
Steven Magelowitz is a staff software engineer with 12 years of experience building distributed, full-stack systems across startups and larger companies, currently at Empower in Irvine. He’s delivered high-impact architecture and reliability improvements—from rearchitecting Elasticsearch indexing pipelines in Erlang to leading microservice design and RFC-driven processes in TypeScript—while mentoring teams and introducing robust testing and deployment practices. Comfortable across languages (Elixir, Erlang, Ruby, Java, Python, TypeScript) and domains (search, integrations, billing, surveys), he pairs hands-on implementation with client-facing collaboration to drive product outcomes. A background that spans non-profit lending at Kiva to ad campaign delivery at Google via Epsilon gives him a pragmatic, user-focused approach to engineering trade-offs.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.A Psychology, B.A Psychology at University of Colorado