Coffee lover, engineer, tinkerer, programmer, developer, teacher, team lead, product owner, speaker and mentor.

Over my 13-year-career, I’ve developed and delivered SaaS as well as single-tenant solutions ranging from web & mobile apps, to desktop and cloud apps, to IoT and electronic solutions, to banking ATMs and self-service kiosks.

I’ve been through several incubators and accelerators, and have won many prestigious competitions and prizes!

My interests are very broad, but I surely do specialize in a few technologies (mostly backend and cloud).

~ 13 years of experience in Backend Solutions (SaaS and single-tenant)
~ 8 years of experience in node.js and cloud solutions (mainly in AWS and Azure)
~ 3 years of experience in .Net, .Net Core, and C#
~ 5 years of experience as a team lead, including fulfilling product owner and scrum master roles
~ 4 years of experience with IoT solutions
~ 1.5 years of experience in Python, FastAPI, Apache Airflow
~ 1 year graduate course instructor at Dalhousie University – Designed and taught the technical aspects of the Tech innovation course (3 semesters – full year)
~ 1 year of experience in Java

Many innovation and mentorship awards including Microsoft Imagine Cup and Discovery Center Award for Innovation
I’d like to invite you to check my Medium Blog:
https://medium.com/@stevedafer

Besides my work, I like to research artificial intelligence topics;

I have several publications in the field of keystroke dynamics so far, and I believe that books are our current implementation of telepathy.