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Stephen Kawaguchi

Commander · DISC type D
Flipp at Permanent
📍 Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Stephen is a Staff+ Engineer with over 20 years of experience leading transformations in architecture and engineering culture at companies like Ada, IBM, and John Deere. His expertise spans distributed systems, DevOps, and platform APIs, with a focus on Go, TypeScript, and Python. Colleagues describe him as knowledgeable, strategic, and meticulous.

Outside of work, Stephen is a dedicated father who is deeply involved in his sons life, humorously remarking that managing his sons soccer schedule has become his second job.

He co-authored a publication detailing a new approach for mobile client-server compatibility, showcasing his innovative thinking in system architecture.

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Current Role
Flipp
Location
Greater Toronto Area, Canada
Personality Overview

How Stephen shows up

Impact-Driven
Decisive
Strong-Willed

They are less concerned about the product and more about its potential impact. They prefer to move quickly, and expect the same from others. They like to stay in control of the negotiation or defining of the terms.

Priorities

Topics Stephen cares about

Engineering Culture
He frequently posts about building high-performing, non-toxic teams and believes in the value of "glue work" to unblock others and foster collaboration.
System Reliability
He advocates for applying safety-critical thinking from industries like automotive to software engineering to proactively prevent outages in distributed systems.
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Career

Work history

Flipp
Permanent
11-2021 - 2-2023
Principal Software Engineer, Core Platform - TypeScript, Python, Go, React, MongoDB, Datadog
Ada
IBM
Permanent
John Deere
4 yrs 8 mos
9-2011 - 7-2014
Lead Front-end Engineer - JavaScript, Node.js, Building Automation Systems
Eaton
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Education
Bachelor of Design
York University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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