Steve Mcpherson
Managing Director at JPMorganChase
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Mcpherson is a seasoned technology executive with 12+ years leading large-scale data and machine learning platforms, currently serving as Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase after senior leadership roles across Amazon and AWS. He shaped product strategy and delivery for Amazon DataZone, led SageMaker initiatives bridging automated ML with human-in-the-loop workflows, and earlier built global retail and internationalization engineering solutions for Amazon’s international expansion. A hands-on engineer at heart, Steve has deep experience in big data infrastructure—contributing DevOps work to notable AWS EMR bootstrap projects—and has driven AWS contributions to core open-source analytics like Hadoop, Spark, and Presto. He combines product vision, operational rigor, and cross-functional leadership to turn complex data governance and ML problems into scalable customer solutions. Based in Seattle, he pairs entrepreneurial experience as a founder/CTO with enterprise-grade delivery, often focusing on closing capability gaps that enable global feature launches.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Cert: Advanced development with ANSI C Computer Science, Cert: Advanced development with ANSI C Computer Science at University of WashingtonComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (18)
cloud-computing10
scripting10
bash10
aws10
amazon-emr10
devops10
spark9
mesos9
opentsdb9
gradlew8
phoenix-framework8
hadoop8
phoenix-liveview8
gradle8
apache-phoenix8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/emr-bootstrap-actions
Sep 2013 - Dec 2015
This repository hold the Amazon Elastic MapReduce sample bootstrap actions
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:64 commits, 25 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the project by creating and modifying bootstrap action scripts. They worked on setting up and configuring various tools such as Spark, Mesos, and OpenTSDB within the EMR environment. The user also updated existing bootstrap scripts for cascading compatibility, Gradle, and Phoenix, demonstrating experience in maintaining and deploying services within the Amazon EMR ecosystem.
bootstrapelastic-map-reduce
amazon-archives/emr-sample-apps
Sep 2013 - Sep 2015
Amazon Elastic MapReduce code samples
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 11 months
elastic-map-reduce
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