Steven Bayer
Senior Software Engineer at Elevate Healthcare
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Bayer is a results-driven Software Development Engineer at AWS, bringing a decade of back-end experience in scalable data processing and cloud-native systems. Based in Austin, Texas, his career spans roles from Apple Genius to senior engineering positions at H-E-B and iHeartMedia, illustrating a rare blend of hands-on coding, customer focus, and cross-functional collaboration. In open source, he contributed to OpenSearch Data Prepper as a back-end developer, refactoring path handling, championing the migration from prepper to processor configurations, and adding a Docker publishing helper for container registries. He specializes in Java back-end development and tooling that moves data at scale, with production-ready improvements across data pipelines and deployment workflows. He studied Computer Science at Onondaga Community College, and his path—from pharmacy tech to software engineering—highlights adaptability, curiosity, and a continuous learning mindset.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
high school diploma, Computer Science, high school diploma, Computer Science at Central North Syracuse High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Onondaga Community College
Github Skills (9)
ingest10
javas10
java10
opensearch9
docker8
dockerce8
dockers8
analytics8
testing7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/data-prepper
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
OpenSearch Data Prepper is a component of the OpenSearch project that accepts, filters, transforms, enriches, and routes data at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:246 reviews, 54 commits, 119 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the OpenSearch Data Prepper project. Their work included modifying Java code, as evidenced by the "Fix PrepperState javadoc" commit, as well as refactoring file path handling within various plugins, switching from `Path.of` to `Paths.get`. Furthermore, the user was heavily involved in the deprecation of the "prepper" configurations in favor of "processor", including code refactoring and documentation updates. Lastly, they enhanced the codebase by adding support for a docker helper script for publishing to container registries.
tracesanalyticsprepperfiltersobservability
sbayer55/prezto
Aug 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:47 pushes in 7 years 7 months
shellconfiguration-frameworkzsh-pluginzsh
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