Steven Skelton lives in Toronto, Canada and has a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada. After graduating he was a consultant to large asset management companies in Canada, specializing in systems integration, account and trading calculations, and automation of workflows.

Today, as Principal Software Engineer at a global digital consulting company, he is working on web services powering a large ecommerce platform.

Executive Summary

  • 17 years in Internet software: 6 financial services, 8 e-commerce.
  • Best tools for the platform: Scala, C# .Net, and Dart Flutter,
  • Reactive: event-driven infrastructure and coding paradigms,
  • Cloud Architect: N-Tier, SOA, REST, API design, sidecar, CAP, layer abstraction.
  • R&D specialist: benefit analysis, feasibility, integration strategies, initial adoption timelines.
  • Data expert: algorithms, caching, full-text search, serialization, optimization.
  • Security: audits, SSO, OAuth, SAML, dual-hop impersonation, encryption, signed tokens.

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