Summary
Steven Sullivan is a seasoned lead engineer with seven years of professional experience and a demonstrated track record building customer-facing platforms and internal tooling at scale. He currently leads engineering at Side, where he has shaped transaction management, admin dashboards, and a multi-tenant website platform using React/Next.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, Node, and GCP. Previously at Google he helped grow the YouTube Creator Community to nearly a million active users and built Crowdsource to capture millions of ML training responses per day. Steven combines product-minded front-end expertise with platform-level infrastructure and orchestration experience, and he’s led multiple cross-cutting technical working groups while mentoring peers. Based in Ladera Ranch, CA, he brings a blend of UX roots and systems thinking—once a swimsuit model and with an aptitude test that pegged him for high-speed or high-precision careers, he’s comfortable pivoting between creative and technical problem solving.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), International Business, Bachelor of Science (BS), International Business at Pepperdine University
Coronado High School
California Lutheran University