Steven Pothoven
Solutions Architect at USIC
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Pothoven is a solutions architect with 13 years of experience designing and delivering scalable web and cloud-native systems, currently leading architecture at USIC from Tampa. He has driven end-to-end products—customer portals, claims and asset tracking, reporting platforms—using Angular frontends, Java APIs, Docker, and Kubernetes, and has a track record of improving performance and operational maturity at scale. Previously he led large, global architecture teams at IBM and refactored high-traffic fleet-management systems to significantly boost responsiveness and Apdex scores. Steven blends hands-on coding stretch back to C++ and Ada with strategic cloud and analytics work (SoftLayer, Watson, Splunk), and co-founded a small web shop that launched community-focused sites. He’s known for turning slow, manual processes into automated, auditable solutions that save hours of operational time.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Mathematics at Calvin UniversityMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at University of Central Florida
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Github Skills (17)
content-type10
entity-relationship-diagram8
ruby7
er-diagram7
rails7
attachment7
schemaspy7
database-diagrams7
activerecord6
paperclip6
reverse-engineering6
ruby-on-rails6
schema6
java6
database5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pothoven/attachment_fu
Oct 2012 - Oct 2017
Treat an ActiveRecord model as a file attachment, storing its patch, size, content type, etc.
Contributions:67 commits, 11 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 years
file-attachmentpatchattachmentrailsstoring
pothoven/simple-rmi
Jul 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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