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Steve M

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CTO Preferred Title
$225.00 /hr $ 250.0K /yr Hourly Rate and Yearly Salary
Overview Vetting Experiences Qualifications
Overview
Basic Summary
LD Talent History
  • Average Response Time 12.0 hours
  • Average Count of Messages/Day 0.3
  • Project Completion Rate 2/4
  • Interview Acceptance Rate 4/6
  • Timezone Overlap 45h PST, 30h UTC
Vetting Summary
  • Code Quality 60%
  • Soft Skill Attributes 60%
  • Expertise 2/3
  • Coding Challenges 60%
  • No. of Lifelong Learning Projects 2
  • No. of Coding Challenges Completed 2
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Interview Scores (5.0/5)
  • Software Engineering Process 5.0/5
  • Technical Breadth 5.0/5
  • Algorithmic Thinking 5.0/5
  • Technical Strength 5.0/5
  • Teamwork 5.0/5
  • Intellectual Merit 5.0/5
  • English Communication 5.0/5
Talent's Devices
  • Desktop Mac
  • Phone iPhone
General
  • Member Since Oct 20, 2022
  • Profile Last Updated Oct 06, 2022
  • Last Activity Nov. 18, 2022, 5:47 a.m. UTC
  • Location United States of America
Profile Summary
Two decades of CTO and senior engineering work in all aspects of software development, infrastructure, and system operations, including team and technology management, product management, and project sponsorship.
Skills
Total Experience: 30+ years
  • MySQL (1E, 30Y)

    1 experience, across 30 years
  • Terraform (1E, 30Y)

    1 experience, across 30 years
  • Google Cloud (1E, 30Y)

    1 experience, across 30 years
  • Product Management (2E, 30Y)

    2 experiences, across 30 years
  • Sales Engineering (1E, 30Y)

    1 experience, across 30 years
  • AWS (1E, 30Y)

    1 experience, across 30 years
  • AWS EC2 (1E, 12Y)

    1 experience, across 12 years
  • Linux (1E, 12Y)

    1 experience, across 12 years
  • PHP (1E, 12Y)

    1 experience, across 12 years
  • DevOps (1E, 12Y)

    1 experience, across 12 years
  • Azure (1E, 12Y)

    1 experience, across 12 years
Weekly Availability
Timezone Overlap with 06 - 21 per Week: 45h PST, 30h UTC
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Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
UTC
15 - 24
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15 - 24
15 - 24
15 - 24
PST
08 - 17
08 - 17
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Vetting
  • Interview Data
  • Agile Development Process
  • Productivity and Responsiveness
  • Teamwork
  • Software Engineering
  • Logical Thinking
  • Technical Strength
  • Intellectual Merit
  • English Communication
  • Documentation
  • System Design
  • Coding Challenges
    60%
  • Algorithms Score
    60%
  • General Score
    60%
  • Easy Algorithm
  • Correctness
    60%
  • Performance
    60%
  • Medium Algorithm
  • Correctness
    60%
  • Performance
    60%
  • Hard Algorithm
  • Correctness
    60%
  • Performance
    60%
  • Expertise
    2/3
  • Design Patterns and Architectures
    2/3
  • Debugging
    2/3
  • Stack Traces
    2/3
  • Testing
    2/3
  • System Administration
    2/3
  • Soft Skill Attributes
    60%
  • Entrepreneurial
    60%
  • Whole Brained
    60%
  • Divergent Thinking / Creativity
    60%
  • Design Ability
    60%
  • Empathy
    60%
  • Project Management Ability
    60%
  • Security
    60%
  • Code Quality
    60%
  • Complex Logic
    60%
  • Models
    60%
  • Controllers
    60%
  • Templates
    60%
  • APIs
    60%
  • Training/Testing Data Models
    60%
  • Code Readability
    60%
  • Ongoing Evaluation
  • Number of Lifelong Learning Project
    2
  • Number of Coding Challenge Completed
    3
  • Lifelong Learning Project 1
  • Lifelong Learning Project 1
  • Coding Challenges 1
  • Coding Challenges 2
  • Coding Challenges 3
Experience
Interim-CTO
Employment
Apr 1993 - Present
GlobalTech Company
Technology Industry
  • Product Management
  • Google Cloud
  • Terraform
  • MySQL
  • Sales Engineering
  • AWS
  • 20+ projects as interim-CTO in a wide variety of industries from insurance to logistics to ERP to consumer systems in the video, SaaS, mobile, and more.
  • Worked with dozens of companies on their product, process, and people plus architecture, development processes, QA, standards, etc. Built systems on Google Cloud and AWS, doing project management.
  • Build systems on AWS and Google Cloud using Terraform, MySQL, etc. Also, I did Sales Engineering for products and product management for many clients.
Website Links
  • https://www.stevemushero.com
CTO
Employment
Dec 2008 - Dec 2020
ChinaNetCloud Company
Technology Industry
  • DevOps
  • Product Management
  • Azure
  • AWS EC2
  • Linux
  • PHP
  • Built and ran a 100+ person team of advanced system operations engineers with world-class platforms, for multi-cloud & data center operations, running 100s of sites with up to 100 million users.
  • Extensive use of AWS and Azure VMs, DBs, and other tools, all Linux-based. Included use of AWS EC2 and Azure, with Product Management for PHP-driven tools for products, DevOps, etc.
Website Links
  • https://www.chinanetcloud.com
Qualifications
Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sep 1988 - Jun 1990
MBA (Management)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sep 1984 - May 1988
B.S. (Electrical Engineering)
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