Stephen Redd is a Solutions Architect with 14+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise web and cloud systems on Microsoft platforms, currently leading architecture for Gordian’s high-scale REST APIs and hybrid-cloud data services. He combines hands-on backend development, identity and security (OAuth/OpenID Connect/WS-Fed), and distributed systems design with practical CI/CD and Git-based workflows to operationalize microservices and messaging at scale. His background spans leading development teams, establishing agile processes, and modernizing stacks from legacy ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core, WebAPI and modern front-end frameworks. Stephen is an active contributor to open-source .NET projects—having updated TicketDesk for EF migrations—which reflects his attention to maintainable database models and deployment-ready code. Based in Spokane, WA, he pairs deep technical breadth (Elastic, MongoDB, Azure DevOps, Octopus) with experience translating complex business domains into reliable, auditable systems.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, 3.98, Computer Science, 3.98 at University of South Carolina Upstate
TicketDesk - A simple and effective Issue Tracker for Help Desks
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:5 releases, 375 commits, 24 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Stephen's contributions primarily involve modifications to the backend code of the TicketDesk system. Their work focused on removing an outdated AutoMetaData T4 template, which was incompatible with Entity Framework 5+, and updating the project's .csproj file. The changes included alterations to the project's database model and file storage systems, demonstrating familiarity with database migrations and entity framework configurations.
.Net Standard Extension packages for common email functions using a variety of different back-end mail services.
Contributions:26 releases, 117 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 7 months
backenddotnete-mailmailernetstandard
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