Resume
Stephen Courtier
Senior / Staff Software Engineer
Product-minded platform engineering, systems thinking, and durable team velocity.
Profile
A personal operating system for Staff+ work: clarify the map, reduce risk, raise the quality bar, and leave teams stronger than I found them.
Representative Work
Boss 01 / Operating Model
Platform Kaizen Loop
A repeatable way to turn reliability signals, delivery friction, and product bets into focused platform improvements.
Boss 02 / Reliability
Observability Arcade
A practical observability layer that helps engineers understand user impact before dashboards become museum pieces.
Bonus Stage / Product Engineering
AI Product Lab
A discovery-to-production path for AI features where evaluation, UX, cost, and safety are designed together.
Operating Principles
- Map Before Motion: I make the invisible visible: constraints, ownership, risks, and decisions get names before they get code.
- Small Loops, Real Feedback: I prefer short learning cycles, observable outcomes, and plans that can survive new information.
- Taste Is a Force Multiplier: Good systems feel calm to operate. Good interfaces make important things obvious. Good docs change behavior.
- Leave Better Footing: The work should leave behind stronger people, clearer paths, and fewer traps for the next engineer.
Staff+ Signals
- Turns ambiguity into architectural options
- Balances product speed with operational reality
- Mentors through artifacts, not folklore
- Designs for accessibility, performance, and maintenance
- Can talk to founders, staff engineers, and support teams in the same afternoon
- Treats delivery systems as products