I am a Senior Software & Data Engineer with 10+ years of experience delivering end-to-end solutions across cloud, data, and full-stack ecosystems. I’ve contributed to platform growth, scalability, and performance optimization in fast-paced environments like Scale AI. I thrive on building robust data pipelines, distributed systems, and data-driven products. I’m skilled at bridging backend, frontend, and data layers to deliver high-impact results. I collaborate with product and data teams to implement AI-driven insights, deploy cloud-native architectures across AWS, GCP, and Azure, and continuously optimize performance and reliability in multi-region environments.

Steven Coker

I am a Senior Software & Data Engineer with 10+ years of experience delivering end-to-end solutions across cloud, data, and full-stack ecosystems. I’ve contributed to platform growth, scalability, and performance optimization in fast-paced environments like Scale AI. I thrive on building robust data pipelines, distributed systems, and data-driven products. I’m skilled at bridging backend, frontend, and data layers to deliver high-impact results. I collaborate with product and data teams to implement AI-driven insights, deploy cloud-native architectures across AWS, GCP, and Azure, and continuously optimize performance and reliability in multi-region environments.

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I am a Senior Software & Data Engineer with 10+ years of experience delivering end-to-end solutions across cloud, data, and full-stack ecosystems. I’ve contributed to platform growth, scalability, and performance optimization in fast-paced environments like Scale AI. I thrive on building robust data pipelines, distributed systems, and data-driven products.

I’m skilled at bridging backend, frontend, and data layers to deliver high-impact results. I collaborate with product and data teams to implement AI-driven insights, deploy cloud-native architectures across AWS, GCP, and Azure, and continuously optimize performance and reliability in multi-region environments.

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Work Experience

Senior Cloud Full Stack Engineer at ScaleAI
January 1, 2023 - November 3, 2025
Architected and maintained a large-scale AI/ML-powered data platform using Node.js, Python (FastAPI), React, and TypeScript, integrated with AWS (Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS) and GCP (BigQuery, Pub/Sub) for real-time insights and analytics dashboards. Built ETL and streaming pipelines with Apache Airflow, Kafka, and Snowflake; implemented real-time analytics components with WebSocket and GraphQL subscriptions; embedded AI insights (predictions, sentiment analysis, anomaly detection) into dashboards; designed modular frontend with Redux Toolkit; led CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
Lead Full Stack & Data Engineer at Insight Global
December 1, 2022 - December 1, 2022
Engineered and scaled data-driven web applications using Next.js, React, Node.js (NestJS), and Python (FastAPI), deployed across AWS (Lambda, S3, ECS) and GCP (Cloud Run, BigQuery) for analytics and automation platforms. Built interactive analytics dashboards with React + D3.js; developed real-time data processing systems with Kafka, Redis, and Airflow; integrated AI/LLM features using OpenAI API, LangChain, and Hugging Face Transformers; created GraphQL APIs with Apollo Server; designed and maintained large-scale ETL pipelines with PySpark and Airflow; standardized CI/CD with Terraform, Docker, and GitHub Actions.
Senior Software Engineer – Cloud Data Platform at Google
May 1, 2019 - May 1, 2019
Developed and optimized data ingestion and analytics pipelines using Python, Airflow, and BigQuery, processing terabytes of telemetry and operational data daily. Built microservices in Python and Node.js, connected data pipelines with frontend analytics tools and ML model APIs; implemented data validation and transformation workflows in PySpark and SQL; operationalized model training pipelines on GCP Vertex AI; created GraphQL gateways to unify data access and reduce API complexity; optimized BigQuery schema design and query performance to reduce costs; collaborated in Agile sprints to deliver high-performance analytics products.
Software Engineering Intern – Cloud & Data Solutions at Dell Technologies
December 1, 2014 - December 1, 2014
Assisted in developing internal infrastructure monitoring dashboards using Python and JavaScript (jQuery, D3.js). Built automation utilities in Python and PowerShell for data collection and performance reporting across virtualized environments; created SQL-based data aggregation scripts for telemetry; collaborated with DevOps to streamline configuration management via vSphere APIs and shell automation.

Education

BS in Computer Science at Florida State University
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2011
MS in Computer Science at Florida State University
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2013

Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
January 11, 2030 - November 3, 2025
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
January 11, 2030 - November 3, 2025
Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification
January 11, 2030 - November 3, 2025
Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
January 11, 2030 - November 3, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics