Summary
Stephen Liberty is a Senior Systems Development Engineer with 13 years of professional experience and a freelance background dating to 2001, blending deep JavaScript and web-architecture expertise with strong cloud and DevOps skills. He has driven infrastructure and cost-optimization efforts across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform/CDKTF, and GitLab CI, reducing spend and improving observability while enabling branch-based testing and complex migrations. Comfortable across the stack, he’s built identity and data pipelines, real-time analytics integrations, and scalable job workers for tens of thousands of devices, and continues to maintain Linux networks and LDAP/NFSv4 services. Known for pragmatic automation and pragmatic migrations, he pairs hands-on coding (Node.js, Next.js, Express) with systems thinking to deliver reliable, testable platforms for both startups and large enterprises.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES
Technical Communications Business Programming Site Design Marketing, Technical Communications Business Programming Site Design Marketing at Clarkson University