Steven Mays
I build cloud-native, serverless, and AI-enhanced systems that cut costs, drive revenue, and scale — engineered to not break.
Career Highlights
Key professional milestones and accomplishments:
Principal-Level Engineering at Scale
Architecting mission-critical systems at $2B brand incubators, driving innovation and technical excellence across e-commerce operations at scale.
Complex Systems Architecture & Problem Solving
Designed fault-tolerant, event-driven systems using Saga orchestration, circuit breakers, and idempotency patterns—solving cascading failure scenarios in production systems processing thousands of events per second.
E-commerce & Marketing Automation
Architected automated ad deployment and optimization system managing thousands of campaigns across Facebook, Google, and TikTok with $100K+ daily ad spend—driving $1M+ annual revenue impact while replacing a 10-person team and saving $500K-$1M annually.
Cloud-Native & Serverless Solutions
Led large-scale migrations to serverless architectures, reducing infrastructure costs by 50% while enhancing system scalability and reliability.
Data-Driven AI Solutions
Developed AI-enhanced recommendation and analytics systems, increasing revenue and customer satisfaction through data-driven personalization.
Languages & Frameworks
Core technologies I work with daily
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node.js
GraphQL
GoLang
C#
Cloud & Infrastructure
Platforms and technologies I build with
AWS (Lambda, ECS, S3)
Docker & Kubernetes
NoSql
Mongo, Dynamo
SQL Databases
MySQL, PostgreSQL
Redis & Caching Strategies
CI/CD Pipelines
Github Actions, AWS CodePipeline
Marketing & Ad Tech
Advertising platforms and marketing automation expertise
Facebook Marketing API
Graph API, CAPI, Lookalike Audiences
Google Ads & Analytics
Google Ads API, Tag Manager, Enhanced Conversions
TikTok Ads API
Campaign Management, Audience Targeting
Attribution & Tracking
Segment CDP, Server-Side Tracking, Custom Attribution
Automation & Optimization
Bid Optimization, Audience Management, GDPR Compliance
Affiliate Management
Self-Service Portals, Link Generation, Performance Tracking
Education
Park University
B.S. in Management / Computer Information Systems