Steve Oliver
Encinitas,CA
Summary
Trusted software development and delivery team leader with 20+ years experience across multiple industries. Passionate about delivering excellence by measuring customer satisfaction, promoting continuous learning, and fostering a culture of flow and feedback. Expertise in software design, cloud-native architecture, and open source development. Trusted advisor to IT leaders and advocate for software engineers.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead DevOps Architect
Guild Mortgage
San Diego, United States
12.2023 - Current
- Responsible for leading the development of standardized development processes and environments, shifting security and compliance left to ensure a secure and reliable software supply chain, and bringing enterprise observability to the applications and systems that power our customer and partner-facing services.
Senior Technical Architect
Guild Mortgage
San Diego, United States
03.2020 - 11.2023
- Led Guild Mortgage Company's Retail Sales Product (Development) Team to deliver a complete re-platforming of Guild Mortgage's Customer Point-of-Sale (POS) solution
- Primary contributions include: Connecting the dots between business, technology, old, and new to produce forward-looking solutions given current constraints; Vendor evaluations and technical contract reviews; Project management support as technical subject matter expert (SME); Team development and personal mentorship; DevOps enablement
- Major outcomes include: Progressive release of a newly integrated (third-party developed) POS solution alongside the existing POS solution, to branches and loan officers nationwide; Establishment of new core services utilizing cloud-native, event-based, and industry standards-compliant approaches and technologies; Migration of customer Identity Provider (IdP); Introduction of best-of-breed Observability capabilities.
Senior Software Engineer
Guild Mortgage
San Diego, United States
06.2018 - 03.2020
- Responsible for the design, development and support of PHP based APIs and back-end web services powering external websites, native mobile applications, and internal loan origination and servicing platforms, I help the company innovate digital products and optimize software development operations by promoting the adoption of test-driven development, continuous integration and structured design, improving the reliability and performance of new and legacy code bases.
Senior Drupal Developer
Savvier
01.2014 - 06.2018
- Led the design, development, and support of several large members-only sites featuring paid access management, content scheduling, and e-commerce integration, with high quality object-oriented back-end modules and front-end components implemented in React, Redux, and JSON API
- Deployed multi-store e-commerce platform for physical and digital product sales, event scheduling, registration and reporting; replaced various ad-hoc systems with a new Drupal 8 / Commerce 2-based platform that optimizes critical workflows and unblocks opportunities for business growth
- Developed the necessary vendor integrations and advanced upstream features for the project
- Introduced continuous integration, automated testing and coding/workflow standards; developed software installation profiles with contributed and custom modules, streamlining the operations of the web production team.
Lead Web Developer
Condurre.com
Carlsbad, California
01.2010 - 01.2014
- Developed a configurable finance-traffic monetization platform for content publishers and finance providers; Developed consumer automotive websites featuring research tools, inventory, and dealer location functionality; Implemented continuous integration, cloud hosting, and software development workflows to support the production operations of the company's platforms and products.
Developer, Principal
Circatree
01.2007 - 01.2014
- Full-service web design, development, and support-primarily Drupal 7 and 8 site building, custom back-end module development and third-party integration
- Through client projects and volunteer time, contributed to the following projects: Drupal Core (Twig initiative); Drupal Commerce 2.x; Commerce Avatax; Commerce Product Bundle; Commerce Stock; Commerce Vantiv; Relation; Relation Select.
Freelance Graphic and Web Designer
Freelance
01.2000 - 01.2007
- Print and graphic design plus web development services for small and startup businesses
- Working primarily with Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, HTML, and CSS for corporate identity, graphic design, print collateral and static web sites.
Education
Management Information Systems, Business Administration -
MiraCosta College
01.2010
Skills
- REST APIs
- Software Development
- Software Design
- Languages
- English (Native or Bilingual)
- Spanish (Limited Working)
- Strategic Planning
- Automated testing
- Technical leadership
- Continuous integration
- Application Development
- Software Architecture
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Buy/Build Recommendations
- Application security
- Network Security
- Documentation and technical articles
- Performance Optimization
- Agile project management
- API Development
Personal Information
Title: Platform Architect, Secure Software Delivery & Observability
Languages
English
Native/ Bilingual
Spanish
Limited
Accomplishments
Drupal Meetup Organizer and Presenter - North County San Diego Drupal User's Group
Drupal Core Contributor and Subsystem Maintainer - Theme System
Drupal Contributed Module Maintainer - Relation, Commerce, Stock, Products, Payments
Laravel Contributed Module Developer - Avro SerDe, Kafka Publisher / Consumer
Affiliations
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Timeline
Lead DevOps Architect
Guild Mortgage
12.2023 - Current
Senior Technical Architect
Guild Mortgage
03.2020 - 11.2023
Senior Software Engineer
Guild Mortgage
06.2018 - 03.2020
Senior Drupal Developer
Savvier
01.2014 - 06.2018
Lead Web Developer
Condurre.com
01.2010 - 01.2014
Developer, Principal
Circatree
01.2007 - 01.2014
Freelance Graphic and Web Designer
Freelance
01.2000 - 01.2007
Management Information Systems, Business Administration -
MiraCosta College