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STEPH SIMMONS

FULL STACK & CLOUD ENGINEER · AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

I build the whole system: interfaces, APIs, application logic, cloud infrastructure, and the delivery path that gets it into production.

Projects

Products built end-to-end, from interface to infrastructure.

Three independently engineered products spanning frontend development, APIs, backend services, multi-tenant application design, event-driven systems, and AWS infrastructure.

RabbitHole

A full-stack video platform for uploading, processing, searching, and streaming media. The React interface tracks processing in real time, while the backend handles transcoding, speech indexing, metadata generation, and semantic search.

ReactFastAPIWebSocketshls.jsffmpegAWS TranscribeECS FargateTerraform
The product experience stays connected to a long-running async pipeline: users can upload once, watch processing status update live, then search transcripts and semantic matches from the same interface.
rabbithole.stephsimmons.dev
RabbitHole

QuicLens

A multi-tenant research analytics SaaS that replaces spreadsheets and one-off scripts with a structured workflow for plate uploads, kinetic analysis, classification, collaboration, and audit-ready results.

ReactTypeScriptFastAPIpytestWorkOS SSODynamoDBAWS CDK
The application turns a scientific workflow into a product: upload raw plate data, run analysis, classify results, review them in the UI, and preserve the context needed to reproduce and audit the work later.
143named backend pytest functions across 9 modules covering analysis, validation, classification, thresholds, and API integration
quiclens.stephsimmons.dev
QuicLens

PureZen

A full-stack spa booking product with a conversational guest experience and a separate staff console for schedules, guests, analytics, and operational questions, backed by deterministic booking logic and live data.

FastAPIREST APIsGuest ConciergeAdmin ConsoleDynamoDBAnthropic ClaudeAWS CDK
Two user experiences share the same backend: guests can book and manage appointments conversationally, while staff get dashboards and an assistant that answers questions from live operational data.
purezen.stephsimmons.dev
PureZen
About

A decade in enterprise IT. Five years building outside it, too.

Full Stack and Cloud Engineer shaped by a decade inside enterprise IT and years of building software end-to-end. I work across interfaces, APIs, application logic, cloud architecture, deployment, and operations, with the perspective of someone who has also seen what happens after software ships: incidents, handoffs, dependencies, and systems inherited by people who were not there when they were built.

I like owning the path from user experience to backend behavior to the cloud platform underneath it, and leaving behind software that is understandable, observable, and supportable.

Experience

2021 to Present
Independent Engineer · Full Stack & Cloud
RabbitHole · QuicLens · PureZen
Designing and shipping the products above end-to-end alongside a full-time enterprise IT role, from frontend and API behavior through backend services, AWS infrastructure, automated delivery, testing, and operational readiness.
2015 to Present
IS Supervisor · Scrum Master
Mutual of Omaha · Omaha, NE
Progressed from Senior Service Desk Analyst through Business Systems Consultant and Technical Lead to IS Supervisor; now leading a 24-person enterprise IT team as a technical escalation point, coordinating platform changes across engineering, infrastructure, identity, and security.
Credentials
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services
CERTIFIED 2026
MS, Management Information Systems + MBA
University of Nebraska at Omaha
2024 to Present
BS, Management Information Systems
University of Nebraska at Omaha
2020 to 2023
Systems Development Certification
University of Nebraska at Omaha
2023
Capabilities

Full-stack product engineering with cloud depth.

Modern frontend development, API and backend engineering, event-driven AWS architecture, testing, delivery automation, and infrastructure defined as code.

Event-Driven Systems
Event-driven by default when workloads don't require synchronous coupling.
EventBridgeAmazon SQSAWS LambdaECS FargateAPI GatewayCloudFront
Platform & Delivery
Repeatable environments, defined as code, shipped without click-ops.
AWS CDKTerraformGitHub ActionsOIDCCloudWatchDocker
Data & Multi-Tenancy
Tenant-aware authorization through identity, membership, roles, resource checks, and deliberate data modeling.
DynamoDBAmazon S3IAMWorkOS SSOJWTMulti-Tenant Architecture
Applied AI
Grounded and cost-aware; never the front door for routine requests.
Anthropic Claude APIOllamaAWS TranscribeVector EmbeddingsSemantic SearchAnthropic Tool Use
Full Stack Development
User-facing interfaces, API-driven backends, application state, testing, and the integration points between them.
PythonFastAPIREST APIsReactTypeScriptJavaScriptVueVuetifyVitePiniaCypressTailwind CSSMangumffmpeghls.js
Contact

Let's build the next product

Open to Full Stack, Software, and Cloud Engineering roles. If you're building modern applications or cloud systems and want someone comfortable across the stack, reach out.

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