# Stephen Schwahn > Staff Software Engineer | Drata | Risk & Compliance Location: San Diego, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/stephenschwahn Steph is a staff software engineer at Drata, a risk and compliance platform that automates security and compliance processes for SaaS companies. With over ten years of experience in software engineering, Steph specializes in product architecture, scaling, and system design. Previously, Steph was a staff software engineer and product architect of growth at Greenlight, a fintech company that empowers parents to raise financially-smart kids. There, Steph led the technical design and implementation of key features and services that drove the company's growth strategy, such as the MarTech stack, registration infrastructures, and personalization architectures. Steph also worked with several agile squads that focused on core app technologies, cloud services, and internal tooling, serving as a back-end engineer and a technical leader. Steph is passionate about technology and innovation, and strives to deliver high-quality products that solve real customer problems and create value for the company. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Drata Jan 2024 – Present | San Diego, California, United States ### Staff Software Engineer - Product Architect of Growth @ Greenlight Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 ### Sr. Software Engineer - Growth @ Greenlight Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States ### Tech Lead - Growth @ Greenlight Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Greater Atlanta Area Responsible for technical management and implementation for two technical squads that focus on core app technologies, cloud services, and internal tooling within the company. Run the sprint planning meetings and help manage the tasks alongside a product leader for each project that the scrum squad is assigned. Also serve as the back-end engineer for both teams and own several core pieces of technology, such as the web registration, customer support tool, transaction services, and supporting pieces of our core API. ### Software Engineer @ Greenlight Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Atlanta Area Optimized and improved the customer support tool to enhance its speed and capabilities by optimizing the SQL queries, tightening its security, and adding proper React/Redux technologies to the front-end. Built the company's Web Registration in React/Redux from scratch and integrated it with the back-end. Inherited the Cloud services and helped to release the Greenlight 2.0 app, specifically focusing on the back-end allowance improvements, savings goals, parent dashboard, and assisted rearchitecting the Android app to a Kotlin/MVI application. Served as a release lead and branch manager for the project's duration. ### Cofounder and CTO @ Plutonium Apps Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Greater Atlanta Area Led a large team of project managers and software engineers for mobile and web app development. Built significant company-wide boilerplate and demo codes that decreased the time cost of building apps from several months to a few weeks. Acquired technical and human capital to ensure that Plutonium Apps has the talent it needs to succeed. Created new business relationships with clients and partners to produce amazing iPhone, Android, Web, and Cloud experiences. Ensured that the latest technical standards are being followed, maintained, and created. ### Cofounder @ Crescendo Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Atlanta Area Built the MVP and Version 1 of our Music Technology product while in and after having graduated from the Create-X Startup Launch program. The tech stack was Swift, Node.js, and Java/Kotlin. Also managed all infrastructure and deployments. ### Cloud Platform Engineering Intern @ VMware AirWatch Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Atlanta Area Architected a new method for designing REST API endpoints for the Windows Division of the AirWatch Platform. Increased performance and enhanced scalability of the server. Reduced technical debt and produced white papers on maintaining this system. Designed a system to help Quality Engineering track device communication errors. ### Software Engineering Intern @ National Instruments Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Austin, Texas Area For my third co-op rotation, I brought web technologies into LabVIEW. Researched and implemented a layout and dynamic WYSIWYG system for LabVIEW, increased the scalability and maintainability of HTML component generation, learned and led the adoption of test driven development. Required mastery of both C# and Javascript as well as Scrum methodology. ### Software Engineering Intern @ National Instruments Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Austin, Texas Area Brought the graphical-based LEGO Mindstorms program to the iPad. Strengthened error reporting and crash management, implemented the programming block and popover UI, and collaborated with visual and UX designers. This app was featured in Apple's "Everything Changes with iPad" campaign. Required extensive use of C# and the Xamarin.iOS toolchain. ### Instrument Driver Coop @ National Instruments Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Austin, Texas Area Designed driver APIs for scientific instruments in LabVIEW, provided correctional fixes in existing instrument drivers, and helped perform code reviews for external customers. Designed a LabVIEW automation tool for determining necessary fixes. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stephen-schwahn-909074154 --- Source: https://flows.cv/stephenschwahn JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stephenschwahn/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22