Steven Lawrance

About Steven Lawrance

Software engineering masters graduate and open source software contributor from Carnegie Mellon University who enjoys building complete computing solutions at all levels of abstraction to automate business processes at a low cost, in a short time frame, and with high quality.Specialties: Linux, Windows, and OS X interoperability, Java, advanced Java concurrency, shell scripting, HTTPS troubleshooting, Linux server configuration, network administration, Force.com platform

Experience

1. Principal Architect

   Salesforce

   Jan 2007 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Automated the setup of customers\' https certificates for their Salesforce.com-hosted web sites from the UI down to the API calls made to the internal load balancer hardware and to the DNS provider. This involved designing, championing, and implementing this and its supporting features across multiple stakeholders, including product management, technical operations, security, development, quality engineering, support, and customers.Integrated a WYSIWYG web site editor and content management system with a team into the Salesforce.com codebase. My focus areas involved low-level connections and tie-ins to Salesforce.com as well as working with the release engineering and technical operations teams to get the site runtime systems configured and deployed. This product is known as Site.com.­Brought attention to specific cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities by writing a Firefox Firebug extension that looked for improper string escaping and having quality engineers from every functional team test the system with the extension. After the bugs that this extension identified were fixed, and with other security improvements in place, a security auditing firm highly praised Salesforce.com\'s security.Improved an internal production testing tool\'s scheduling of tests by adding prerequisite expressions and event-driven processing to increase test parallelizationChampioned an improvement to an anti-phishing feature\'s design successfully before it was releasedAutomated HTTPS troubleshooting with an internal utility for support representatives that substantially reduced the number of escalated HTTPS casesResolved customer cases related to the application programming interface (API) and secure sockets layer (SSL), quickly becoming a go-to person for HTTPS and SSLEnhanced the user interface of, added Apache Ant build files to, significantly improved the configuration system of, and added multiple-window browser screenshots to an internal production testing tool

Education

• Bryant University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Administration

  1997 — 2000

• Carnegie Mellon University

  Master, Software Engineering

  2005 — 2006

Skills

• Jetty
• Software Engineering
• Jsp
• Html
• Cloud Computing
• Apis
• Sql
• Ant
• Linux
• Distributed Systems
• C
• Programming
• Shell Scripting
• Databases
• Force.com
• Object Oriented Design
• Ipv6
• Javascript
• Network Administration
• Software Development
• Pl/Sql
• Architectures
• Java
• Windows
• Eclipse
• Squid
• Software Design
• Api
• System Administration
• Php
• Architecture
• Junit
• Software Project Management
• Ssl