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`----[ packet forged in 1995 :: chrome worn :: signal still hot ]-----------'
Release Name..: Steven_L_Fusco_Resume_README_TXT
Handle........: SLF
Style.........: 1990s BBS / .NFO / neon-noir cyberdeck dossier
Contact.......: slf@stevenfusco.com
Voice.........: 512.584.6258
WWW...........: https://stevenfusco.com
LinkedIn......: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenfusco
StackExchange.: https://stackexchange.com/users/7607/slf
Clearance.....: production scars, audit rooms, midnight incidents
Credstick.....: founder / CTO / VP engineering / architect / builder
.-[ 000 :: EXECUTIVE SIGNAL // STREET LEVEL SUMMARY ]-----------------------.
Founder, CTO, VP Engineering, architect, builder, mentor, and hands-on
systems engineer with production credits from dial-up ISP basements through
cloud-native AI, mobile security, robotics, cybersecurity, game platforms,
enterprise workflow, telecom, and large-scale data systems.
Thirty-plus years of shipping software, scaling teams, cutting through
ambiguity, and moving ideas from napkin sketch to production runtime.
Works comfortably between the chrome towers and the machine room: strategy,
compliance, roadmaps, incident channels, architecture diagrams, build logs,
and source code.
.-[ 001 :: CURRENT / RECENT RUNS // ACTIVE CONTRACTS ]----------------------.
02/24 - PRESENT Element.fm, LLC Founder / CTO
--[ independent node :: hybrid cloud / on-prem ]--------------------------
* Own and operate element.fm, mail.elmt.live, and ttsapi.online across a
hybrid cloud / on-prem architecture.
* Built and maintain a fully open source podcast hosting platform from
scratch.
* Self-manage marketing, analytics, customer support, and product
development.
06/24 - PRESENT Reality Defender (YC'22) VP of Engineering
--[ AI countermeasure corp :: realtime inference grid ]-------------------
* Lead a distributed team of 30 engineers building scalable, event-driven
APIs for real-time model inference across telephony, audio, video,
images, and text.
* Facilitated SOC 2 compliance and ISO standards work.
* Researched and guided AWS EKS and Azure AKS architecture choices.
* Built CI/CD, code review, and engineering practice foundations.
* Developed real-time video meeting augmentation pipeline for ML training
with Azure Communication Services.
* Developed streaming dataloaders for image, video, and audio assets from
S3 into PyTorch training flows.
02/22 - 06/24 Quokka / Kryptowire VP of Engineering
--[ mobile appsec lab :: device intelligence / compliance ]---------------
* Led distributed engineering for mobile application security products
using TypeScript, Python, Rust, Kotlin, Swift, and web/mobile stacks.
* Brought company through SOC 2 Type I and Type II compliance.
* Guided Azure Kubernetes deployment and mobile App Store / Google Play
release workflows.
* Established code review, build pipeline, and automated CI/CD practices.
09/20 - 02/22 Inertial Sense Inc VP of Engineering
--[ robotics field ops :: hardware / firmware / cloud ]-------------------
* Guided hardware and software teams through multiple robotic mower
product releases.
* Translated high-level product vision into backlog work using Scrum.
* Maintained cloud operations for deployed robots using Docker,
Kubernetes, AWS, and serverless Lambda APIs.
* Mentored junior engineers and debugged integration issues across custom
hardware, firmware, mobile apps, and cloud systems.
.-[ 002 :: HIGH-VOLTAGE CAREER HIGHLIGHTS // CORP DOSSIER ]----------------.
Reality Defender : AI deepfake detection, real-time inference
Quokka : mobile application security tooling
Inertial Sense : outdoor robotics and deployed robot operations
AlienVault / AT&T : cybersecurity event detection and management
Trion Worlds : game platform development, MTX, patching tools
BrightContext : real-time live event analytics at massive scale
Cibo Technology : iOS / Android enterprise and public-sector work
BAE Systems : ERP integration, workflow, procurement systems
AMD / Spansion : fabrication metrics and enterprise reporting
Microsoft : Office / SAP interoperability in the corp stack
Dell : CTI, contact services, call routing architecture
nHand / MobiTech : mobile sync, PalmOS, PocketPC, wireless clients
Early ISP Era : Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, Perl/CGI, PHP, DHTML
.-[ 003 :: CYBERDECK LOADOUT // TOOLCHAIN FREQUENCIES ]--------------------.
Web iOS Android C
Objective-C C++ C# / .NET Swift
Java Golang Rust Node.js
TypeScript Python Kafka ZeroMQ
Redis Elasticsearch MongoDB Postgres
AWS Azure Kubernetes Pinecone
n8n flowise LLM ML
Also observed in the sprawl:
Perl, Bash, PHP, ASP.NET, WCF, Workflow Foundation, Oracle, SQL Server,
Cassandra, CouchDB, Hadoop, Storm, Ruby, Rails, QT, Docker, Salt, Flask,
PalmOS, PocketPC, FreeBSD, Slackware, Red Hat, Apache, Bind, Samba,
CVS, Bugzilla, MySQL, PostgreSQL, XSLT, XML, DHTML, COM, MFC, Delphi,
Object Pascal, WebLogic, EJB, Swing, TopLink, JReport, Satellite Forms.
.-[ 004 :: SELECTED ARCHITECTURE DROPS // BLACKBOX NOTES ]-----------------.
AlienVault / AT&T [threat grid / event storm]
* Architected event and alarm counting architecture using Kafka, Redis,
and Elasticsearch.
* Converted monolithic processes into Kubernetes-friendly microservices.
* Improved heavily event-driven USM Anywhere fleet performance and EPS.
* Reduced AWS spend via database query and schema performance work.
Trion Worlds [game shard / payment rail / patch stream]
* Modernized polyglot MTX systems handling customer microtransactions,
authentication, friends, internal tools, and internationalization.
* Rebuilt Hadoop log search tooling with improved parallelism and modern
frontend rendering.
* Overhauled the Glyph streaming game patcher in modern C++ / QT.
* Integrated Amazon Instant Access, Twitch, Steam, Chase, PayPal, and
custom game services.
* Supported launches for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation under heavy load.
BrightContext / WealthEngine [live event stream / data refinery]
* Designed and published public iOS and Web SDKs.
* Created FunnelCake, a declarative language for real-time analytics.
* Built real-time platform internals on Storm, Cassandra, Hadoop, MongoDB,
Node.js, APNS, and AWS.
* Orchestrated live events and real-time displays for Washington Post,
TechCrunch, and Engadget audiences.
* ETL'd terabytes of profiles and built matching logic over 500M records.
Dell / Microsoft / Enterprise Systems [telecom core / office arcology]
* Implemented Cisco ICM binary socket protocol in .NET CTI bridge services
and softphone APIs.
* Architected real-time communications interfaces and custom performance
counters.
* Built centralized logging DLLs using C# threading, serialization, events,
delegates, queuing, filtering, transforms, and multiple persistence
layers.
* Worked on Office Business Applications, Duet / Mendocino, SAP + Office
integration, SOA partner enablement, labs, TAP/Beta programs, and early
SharePoint synchronization services foundations.
.-[ 005 :: ROOT DIRECTORY / THE ORIGIN YEARS // PRE-CLOUD UNDERNET ]--------.
03/95 - 12/95 Freelance Contracting Web Developer
12/95 - 01/99 Texas Internet, Inc. Web Developer
02/99 - 05/99 IA Solutions Webmaster / Java
05/99 - 12/99 Future Protocol Webmaster / Linux
12/99 - 04/00 Dell Computers Lead Linux Server
01/00 - 11/01 nHand Technologies Lead Developer
11/01 - 08/02 Partnerware Solutions Eng.
08/02 - 03/03 MobiTech Systems Lead Developer
Early packet trail:
* Built web pages with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Notepad on co-located
servers.
* Developed ecommerce, ASP, Perl/CGI, DHTML, JavaScript, PHP, ColdFusion,
Oracle, and credit-card transaction systems.
* Administered Linux, FreeBSD, Windows NT/2000/XP, Active Directory,
Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Bind, FTP, NIS, NFS, Samba, Bugzilla, CVS.
* Built PalmOS and PocketPC apps plus desktop/server sync components.
* Co-developed C++ STL libraries with logging, smart pointers, memory leak
detection, date formatting, and binary PDB analysis.
.-[ 006 :: LEADERSHIP PROFILE // FIXER NOTES ]-----------------------------.
* Builds teams without losing the ability to read the stack trace.
* Turns vague strategy into sequenced roadmaps and shippable milestones.
* Mentors engineers across product, architecture, debugging, and delivery.
* Comfortable at the whiteboard, in the incident channel, in compliance
audits, and inside production code.
* Has carried systems across startup, enterprise, public-sector, game,
security, AI, robotics, mobile, telecom, and data-heavy environments.
* Knows when to talk architecture, when to cut scope, and when to jack into
the logs until the ghost in the machine gives up its name.
.-[ 007 :: VERIFIED THEMES // STREET CRED ]--------------------------------.
* Distributed systems before they were cool.
* Mobile before app stores.
* Linux before cloud branding.
* Real-time data before dashboards became wallpaper.
* Security and compliance without forgetting developer velocity.
* Polyglot pragmatism over language religion.
* Shipping since the Web still fit in a phone book.
* Calm in the neon rain: production is always the final boss.
.-[ 008 :: GREETZ / REFERENCES // DEAD DROP ]------------------------------.
greetz to: BBS sysops, late-night build breakers, packet kids, phreak
zines, demoscene artists, pager-duty survivors, open-source maintainers,
junior devs asking fearless questions, and every battered ops box that
came back after one more carefully typed command.
final note:
this file is an aesthetic artifact. the work history is real.
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_.-' _ / | END OF FILE |
.-' _.' )/ | uplink closed, signal persists |
/ .-' // | checksum: scars + shipped systems |
/ / // | last seen: somewhere in the stack |
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