Steven Skelton
Staff Software Engineer at RBCx
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSteven Skelton is a Staff Software Engineer based in Old Toronto with over a decade leading teams and architecting resilient, cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP. He combines deep hands-on expertise in high-traffic e-commerce, distributed systems, and performance tuning—having driven SLA improvements, cloud migrations, and stateless microservice replatforms for major retail and financial clients. Steven has a strong background in polyglot stacks (Scala/Play, Spring Boot, Node.js, .NET/Java interop), data grids and caching strategies, and practical SRE practices such as disaster recovery, load testing, and observability. He’s equally comfortable designing middleware and integration layers (Quarkus, Apache Camel, Thrift) and leading offshore engineering teams to deliver complex migrations and greenfield solutions. Unusually for a senior architect, he has repeatedly bridged legacy and modern systems—introducing Scala adoption, unifying heterogeneous services, and standardizing CI/CD and build tooling across teams. A University of Waterloo mathematician by training, he pairs rigorous analytical thinking with pragmatic system design to de-risk large-scale technical change.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Mathematics Applied Mathematics and Pure Mathematics Double Major Theoretical Physics electives, Honours Bachelor of Mathematics Applied Mathematics and Pure Mathematics Double Major Theoretical Physics electives at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (26)
ajax10
ionicons10
polymer10
flags10
svg10
branding10
png10
sortable10
json9
geographic9
topology9
web-components8
javascript8
visualization7
bintray1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
stevenrskelton/tinyakkaslackqueue
May 2022 - Apr 2024
Contributions:186 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
stevenrskelton/tradeaudit.app
Sep 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:511 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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