# Steven M.

> Staff Software Engineer at Empower

Location: Irvine, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/stevenm

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Empower
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Blend
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Primary Technologies / Languages Used: Typescript

- Led architecture for a microservice (digital closing platform) in a distributed systems architecture.
- Introduced RFC (technical design document) process to the team, greatly reducing the number of bugs introduced into our system.
- Led external client-facing meetings, and collaborated closely with external customers to design new features in addition to helping debug problems for them.
- Designed and built several API integrations.
- Added functionality to automate manual processes for our billing team with fault tolerance and redundancy in mind.
- Re-architected process to ingest data into ElasticSearch for Closing Platform, speeding up ingestion by 60%.
- Designed and built functionality to handle purging all data from our system in compliance with our security policies.

### Software Engineer @ Carta
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Primary Technologies / Languages Used: Python [Django]

- Technical lead on the internal tools team.
- Architected and built Salesforce integration with redundancy in mind, using a combination of celery jobs, and cron jobs.

### Software Engineer Technical Lead @ Tripadvisor
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Primary Technologies / Languages Used: Java, Javascript [React]

- Teach lead and full stack software engineer
- Architected a new microservice that handled all survey related information for our customers
- Led many projects from inception to planning, to technical design, all the way through to delivery, involving collaboration with teams from 5 different offices and timezones
- Mentored new engineers on our team and built processes to help them succeed

### Software Engineer Technical Lead @ Mavenlink
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Primary Technologies / Languages Used: Ruby [Rails], Javascript [React], Redis, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL

- Team lead, full stack engineer, working primarily in Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React
- Full time pair programming, using this process to teach and guide other engineers
- Practiced Test Driven Development to ensure almost 100% code coverage at all times

### Software Engineer @ Tripping.com
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Primary Technologies / Languages Used: Elixir, Phoenix, Erlang, Ruby [Rails], Javascript [React], Redis, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Sidekiq

- Led project to completely rearchitect ruby implementation of ElasticSearch indexing pipeline, moving it into Erlang, speeding up our indexing efforts by 10x. This involved working with Ruby/Rails, ActiveRecord, Sidekiq, Erlang, RabbitMQ.
- Built architecture in our Erlang application to implement real-time communication with partner APIs as well as on-site bookings.
- Ported over many features from our backend Rails application into either Erlang or Elixir.
- Integrated Salesforce into several of our applications.
- Led project incorporating A/B test framework Optimizely into existing platform. Work involved sunsetting old framework, building out an internal API to communicate with A/B tests, and many additional custom features.
- Primary Engineering point of contact for anything A/B test related, in regards to our Optimizely implementation, both internal and external.
- Mentored most of the Engineering team to help spread Erlang knowledge.

### Software Engineer @ Kiva.org
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
- Upgraded a Rails 2, Ruby 1.9 codebase to Rails 4.2, Ruby 2.2
- Improved test suite coverage by 20%, giving the developers more confidence in code changes.
- Ported over many slow Cucumber tests to Capybara for better readability and developer friendliness.
- Created functionality to allow borrowers to interact with lenders and trustees through their dashboard.
- Implemented a Ruby Gem for utilizing internal API, an integral piece of our integration process.
- Redesigned core web application using Foundation in order to achieve a mobile-responsive design.
- Re-architected front end using Backbone and Marionette to modernize web application.

### Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
- Built PoC applications for clients with short turnaround times, allowing customers to test their ideas.
- Developed core process for developers to use IBM technologies, such as Bluemix and Track and Plan.
- Practiced full time pair programming and TDD(test driven development), allowing entire team to become comfortable with each piece of functionality in our projects.


## Education
### B.A in Psychology
University of Colorado


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/magelowitz

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Last updated: 2026-03-22