Stephen May
Principal Software Engineer at Paradox Game Converters
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen May is a Principal Software Engineer with about 15 years of professional experience and a broader 18-year background in real-time embedded systems, cloud services, and large-scale data pipelines. He has driven reliability and performance at companies from Raytheon and Thales to Google and EnChannel Medical, reducing multi-terabyte RAM footprints and slashing pipeline runtimes while delivering production C++ and Java systems. Stephen blends low-level firmware and avionics expertise with modern cloud and backend practices—designing gRPC services, Protocol Buffers schemas, and Azure DevOps pipelines to enable clinical and mapping workflows. He also grows teams and processes, having led community-driven game conversion projects, mentored engineers in testing tooling like GoogleTest, and taught internal training classes. Known for pragmatic debugging (tracing boot failures with oscilloscopes) and shipping impactful automations, he moves between hardware-near troubleshooting and high-level architecture with equal fluency. Based in Irvine, CA, he favors measurable improvements—resource reductions, faster runs, and demonstrable reliability—over theoretical answers.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Paso Robles High SchoolCuesta CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at California State University, Fullerton
Github Skills (44)
continuation10
imperator10
converter10
history10
rome10
paradox-interactive10
mappings10
iron10
jekyll10
paradox10
converting9
frontend8
bzip7
testing7
updater7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Idhrendur/Vic2ToHoI4
Dec 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 142 pushes in 11 months
Idhrendur/HoI4MapDrawer
May 2022 - Dec 2025
Takes map screenshots from HoI4
Contributions:24 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 8 months
takesscreenshotscreenshotsmaphoi4
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