Summary
Hoday Stearns is a versatile software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications, embedded firmware, and control systems across companies from Panasonic and Western Digital to Amazon and Google. He combines a strong foundation in mechanical engineering and control theory (M.S., UC Berkeley) with hands-on expertise in JavaScript/React, Ruby on Rails, Python, C/C++, and cloud platforms, enabling rapid development of both frontend experiences and backend services. His background includes developing energy management and autonomous-driving data tooling as well as designing servo firmware and high-precision motion controllers, giving him uncommon depth in real-time systems and hardware-adjacent software. Comfortable as an individual contributor or on cross-functional teams, he’s shipped internal onboarding and large-scale services at Amazon and now contributes to systems-level projects at Google.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Mechanical Engineering, B.S, Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley