Steven Solomon
Staff Software Engineer at Rad AI
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Solomon is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience in building reliable, test-driven systems and elevating engineering culture across startups and large organizations. Based in the New York City area, he has led teams at GitHub and Rad AI to adopt data-driven delivery practices, reduce cycle time, and introduce ML-driven text classification and generative AI into production workflows. He’s equally comfortable shipping backend services in Go and Java, creating web UIs in React/TypeScript, and operationalizing ML with Azure tooling and BERTopic+GPT representations. A pragmatic coach and mentor, Steven bootstrapped e2e testing, championed small PRs via GitHub API analysis, and structured sub-teams to improve focus and throughput. He also authors instructional content—publishing a Live Project on TDD in legacy Java—demonstrating a passion for teaching engineers how to make software that frees people from boring work.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Salisbury High SchoolComputer Science, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (121)
transformers10
topic-modeling10
nlp10
music10
sentence-embeddings10
topic-models10
tf-idf10
machine-learning10
tachyons10
javascript9
phoenix-channels9
audio9
scalable9
testing9
hugo-theme9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
steven-solomon/soonernotfaster
Sep 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:125 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years
steven-solomon/maybe
Jun 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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