Steven Hair

Software Engineering Manager

HedgeServ is an innovative financial technology leader, revolutionizing the alternative investment industry with cutting-edge fund administration, accounting, and software solutions.

• Demonstrated commitment to aligning feature development with overarching business goals, fostering trust with stakeholders by prioritizing initiatives that directly contribute to key performance objectives
• Orchestrated the exposure of the HedgeServ public API directly to clients, leading to over 110,000 queries per day from users
• Initiated the transition from on-prem servers to Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies in AWS, laying the groundwork for a transformative infrastructure upgrade poised to enhance scalability, reliability, and performance of the HedgeServ public API
• Designed and implemented a secure and performant user and machine-to-machine authentication systems which has been adopted as the company standard
• Collaborated closely with other development teams and business stakeholders to seamlessly integrate our applications, offering valuable feedback on design and implementation strategies
• Created and delivered presentations showcasing my team's new and proposed features to company-wide audiences, gathering feedback across departments.

Software Team Lead

• Established a remote international team of nine direct reports with exceptionally low turnover
• Actively fostered career growth for all team members, resulting in three promotions to senior positions for team members that demonstrated exceptional technical and leadership skills
• Led the design and development of a new authentication service that processes 20,000 logins per day. This included replacing our multifactor authentication provider, resulting in a better user experience while substantially reducing costs and maintaining virtually 100% uptime.
• Combined the commenting functionality of three different services into a single centralized application that handles over 30,000 requests per day. All HedgeServ services can now use commenting with no additional development work while providing users have a consistent experience across applications.
• Doubled the number of upstream data sources available in the HedgeServ public API, exposing more data to clients and internal services

Software Engineer

• Created standardized Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and libraries to allow us to create build and deploy jobs in minutes with minimal configuration
• Built Docker-based development stacks that simplified running microservices locally
• Developed full-stack web applications in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and Java

Systems Engineer

Gannett Fleming is a multidisciplinary engineering and construction management firm renowned for its expertise in infrastructure solutions and sustainable development worldwide.

• Designed control systems and programmed PLCs to control industrial processes and equipment
• Wrote project specifications that clients sent for bid to contractors
• Participated in project site visits to ensure that projects were on-schedule and executed as designed