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Steven Platt, PhD

Email: [email protected], San Francisco, California, USA

Founder, Remote, USA, 2024-2025

Creator of the Yoptio AI RSS Reader: https://yoptio.com
Features include AI summaries, article narration, and feed summary podcasts.
Yoptio runs within Google Cloud and uses Google Vertex and Gemini AI to power its AI features.

Lead Platform Engineer, Remote, USA, 2021-2024

Technical Lead, managing 3 QA and 2 Platform Engineers responsible for the Mina blockchain protocol (OCaml, Rust, Go) and client SDK (Typescript).
Managed RPC node operations across testnet, mainnet, and hard fork networks using Terraform, Helm, and GKE.
Reduced Google Cloud costs 52% by re-configuring existing Kubernetes clusters and retiring underutilized infrastructure.
Discovered and resolved two critical network halting bugs through proactive testing.

Doctoral Researcher, Barcelona, Spain, 2018-2021

Wrote network simulations and algorithms in the Python programming language using the NumPy and Pandas libraries for data visualisation.
Published research at top ranked journals and conferences including MDPI Journal Sensors (SJR Q1) and IEEE GlobeCom.
Led lecture and/or lab sections for the following undergraduate courses: Radio Communications, Networks, Blockchain Technologies.

Systems Engineer II - Global Office Expansion, San Francisco, US, 2014-2017

Deployed automated infrastructre tests and testbed services using Amazon AWS.
Service owner for global telephony architecture and IT infrastructure global office expansion.
Migrated monolith VoIP infrastructure to a microservice design reducing voice carrier costs globally 72%.
Enabled full remote site deployment in 41 countries while reducing site delivery time from 12 weeks to 2.

Network Engineer - Infrastructure Operations, San Francisco, US, 2012-2014

Principle network deployment engineer; completed network deployment for facilities in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.
Global support for Cisco LAN, WAN, Wireless and VPN, Juniper firewall, and F5 Load Balancer systems.

Information Technology Analyst II, Peoria, US, 2007-2012

Completed platform design of new satellite connected "field view" industrial camera product with pilot deployments in Canada, Czech Republic, and the United States.
Deployed Cisco IP Phone and HD Telepresence video conference networks to facilities in Australia, China, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States.

DevOps, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Python, Go, Rust, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

PhD. Blockchain Technologies, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, 2018-2021
M.S. Wireless Communications, Barcelona School of Telecommunications and Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, 2017-2018
MBA. Business Administration, Illinois State University, Normal, US, 2009-2012
B.S. Electronic Systems Technology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, US, 2004-2007