Summary
Tanner Stephens is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems and APIs, currently contributing to Cboe Global Markets. He brings a polyglot background—Python, JavaScript, and Ruby—with hands-on experience in Django, Flask, Rails, and React, and a solid grounding in databases, RESTful design, testing, Linux, and networking. Tanner has modernized data pipelines and permissions systems, introduced static security analysis, and driven devops improvements across both startup and enterprise environments. His career spans production work on legacy and microservice architectures at Cerner and feature-driven API design at mySidewalk, demonstrating an ability to balance maintenance with forward-looking engineering. Based in Lone Jack, Missouri, he pairs strong cross-team communication with a pragmatic focus on reliable, auditable systems—often surfacing operational improvements that reduce future maintenance burden.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology
English