Steve Regester

Employee #1 at a VC- and In-Q-Tel-backed cybersecurity startup using AI to automate binary reverse engineering. Built the core product and company from 0 to 1.

• Designed the high-level platform architecture - SaaS product, automation pipelines, database, and API layer.
• Built cloud infrastructure from scratch with Terraform on AWS.
• Engineered distributed task processing with Celery and RabbitMQ for reliable workload distribution.
• Developed the user-facing product in React Router v7 / Remix with isomorphic rendering and real-time dashboards.
• Provided engineering and managerial leadership - hiring, mentoring, code review, and process design.
• Established CI/CD, feature flags, analytics (Sentry, Hotjar), and security-first development practices.

Director of all web and cloud activity - recruiting, mentoring, and leading a full-stack team while contributing daily to code, review, and deployment.

• Led the cloud-native rewrite of a flagship Windows product into a performant, accessible web platform (Node.js, React) for pharmaceutical-research customers.
• Drove a >50% reduction in coding errors in one year through technical training, QA processes, and routine code review.
• Built and maintained cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes on AWS.
• Led adoption of agile practices, reducing project delays and improving team morale; recruited and mentored the team.

Lead engineer rebuilding key product verticals of a crowdsourced security-testing platform, with a focus on quality, maintainability, and reduced technical debt.

• Revamped the UI for top product verticals, increasing user engagement >60% in under a year.
• Led development of new, user-focused workflows and interfaces.
• Established internal coding standards and style guides that lifted team productivity and code quality.

Co-founder and chief engineer. Single-handedly architected all interfaces, services, and data flow for the platform.

• Built a crowd-fundraising web/mobile platform for automated donations to 501(c)(3) nonprofits triggered by real-world events.
• Built real-time event processing with Apache NiFi to consume arbitrary third-party events and trigger donations.
• Ran the full SDLC with CI, Docker, and Kubernetes on GCP.

Lead frontend engineer building workflows and tools for the team discovering and analyzing Android malware.

• Designed and built custom research tooling that doubled (100%+) the security-research team's productivity in under a year.
• Authored the open-source OraculumJS (enterprise JS MVC) and FactoryJS (DI container) frameworks.
• Partnered with researchers and engineers to design systems and select appropriate solutions.

• Generalist building features and interfaces for cloud document and file management; performance work and cross-browser/device test routines.

Earlier: Backbone.js consultant at Plug.dj (2012-2013); Software Engineer at Arrowhead Electronic Healthcare (2010-2011); Sr. Software Developer at Infrahealth (2009-2010); founding member of ATX Hackerspace (2009-2011).