Stephen Guo

University of Toronto 2019 - 2024

Software Engineer at Leap Softwares

About Me

I'm currently working at Leap Softwares as a Software Engineer, and I received a degree in Computer Science at the University of Toronto.

I'm currently learning about:

  • Rust
  • Neovim (I use LazyVim)
  • Linux (I use NixOS and Fedora KDE)
  • Front end technologies such as SvelteKit (Which this site is built in!), Vue.js, and Tailwind CSS

Outside of work, I enjoy playing Chess, rock climbing (sometimes!), biking, board games, badminton, basketball, and going to the gym.

Stephen Guo at Ado's Hibana concert in Toronto

Experience

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Leap Softwares

Toronto, ON

Software Engineer

October 2024 - Present

  • NestJS
  • TypeScript
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Terraform
  • PostgreSQL
  • Rust
  • Retool
  • GraphQL
  • Redis

I developed a financial services management system + Excel/PDF report generators for insurance policies with a team of 6. I designed API endpoints, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring infrastructure for alerts. Also, I worked on a lot of SQL scripting and optimization

For the monitoring infrastructure, I wrote a small Azure Function in Rust to interact with the Slack websocket API for creating a Slack app to interact with our pipelines.

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BlueCat Networks

Toronto, ON

Software Engineer Co-op

May 2021 - April 2022

  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • GitLab CI
  • Python
  • Java
  • Terraform
  • SQL
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • Jenkins
  • Prometheus

I worked with a team of 7 software engineers in a Kanban DevOps environment to build and maintain a data platform handling 100 million+ of users.

I first started working on a monolithic Java codebase for the first 3 months, which was deployed using a Jenkins pipeline. For the rest of my co-op, I started to work on a microservice-oriented data platform with a Python codebase using Trino SQL and Apache Airflow, which was deployed using AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

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