Stephen Rhoton

About Stephen Rhoton

I am an experienced and proven leader in DevOps, Infrastructure and Application Architecture, both at the individual contributor and senior management level. I hold 10+ cloud, devops, and infrastructure certifications, and have worked over the last 7 years to contribute to, build, and manager world class DevOps, Infrastructure, Data, Application, and Platform Ops teams.

Experience

1. Senior Principal Software Engineer

   Fullbay

   Dec 2024 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US

   Principal Engineer responsible for overall architecture and design of system rewrite of PHP monolith to AWS based event driven architecture. Drove AI adoption in SDLC process, moving from 0% AI generated code to 95% AI assisted PRs. Increased team velocity by 250% and on time feature delivery by 90%Implemented multiple new architectures utilizing AWS services and best practices.Designed and wrote multiple AI enabled architectures and agent implementations, acting as an FDE for frontier model implementation.

Education

• University of Arkansas

  M.A., Ecology

  1996 — 1998

• Westminster College (PA)

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology and Environmental Science

  1992 — 1996

• Carnegie Mellon University

  Computational Biology

  2009 — 2012

Skills

• Sql
• Linux
• Software Development
• Virtualization
• Security
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Perl
• Ruby
• Databases
• Unix
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Ext Js
• Mysql
• Database Design
• Ruby on Rails
• Project Management
• Windows
• Oracle Rac
• Javascript
• Html
• System Administration
• Architecture
• Architectures
• Cloud Computing