Stephen Hara

At Indeed I initially worked on backends for the core advertising systems. Currently I work on data pipelines that ingest and transform data later to be used by the ML teams. On both teams I've also driven process changes to improve developer efficiency, code quality, and product testability.

At Woven Planet I worked on the developer tool suite for the Arene vehicle development platform. Our core product is written in Rust. In addition to my primary role, I also worked on improvements to hiring and standardization of certain tools in our organization.

At Otafuku Lab I worked on outsourced projects in Java and AngularJS/Ionic framework.

At Mitsucari I worked on the core recruitment-hiring-matching platform in Ruby on Rails.

At Inxite Health I revamped their interviewing process to incorporate more standardized technical evaluations, provided strategic guidance on their technical direction along with implementing processes for daily development to increase code quality, testability, and reliability, as well as developing a "version 2.0" application framework for their data processing pipeline. Most of my work here was done in Python.

At Aver, I worked on all levels of the core Informatics product as well as the newer products. This included: migrations to new technologies, sometimes as a lead; implementing prototypes; designing, implementing, and deploying features of sizes between 1 day and 7 months; tracking down critical bugs and preventing their regression; and assistance with hiring and interviewing.

At JPMC, I started on the deployment automation team, working with application developers to write scripts and implement infrastructure to minimize the human element of their deployment processes. After about a year I switched to a development team, where I maintained some legacy projects, as well as led a rewrite of an internal application for calculating the US tax obligation for foreign entities with US-based income.

While I was in university, I joined a biomedical informatics lab led by Dr. Victor Jin focusing in identifying genetic markers for susceptibility to breast cancer. While working in Dr. Jin's lab, I contributed data and visualizations to a paper showing correlation of exon-skipping events to other genetic factors.