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Steve Peters

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Director, Data Engineering at Horizon Next
📍 Brooklyn, New York, United States

Steve is the Director of Data Engineering at Horizon Next, specializing in data architecture, system integration, and cloud technology. He is an expert in designing and implementing data pipelines and holds an AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional certification. He earned his Bachelors degree at City Tech, CUNY.

He is an active member of the data engineering community, frequently connecting with peers at meetups. He values pragmatic, simple solutions to complex problems and believes in deeply understanding a technical approach before implementing it. His professional interests include companies like Google and Symantec.

He has an interesting perspective that many of the best data engineers come from non-traditional backgrounds, like Electrical Engineering.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Director, Data Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Brooklyn, New York, United States
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Pragmatic Engineering
He advocates for simple, direct solutions over unnecessarily complex ones and emphasizes the importance of understanding code before execution, a lesson from his early developer days.
Scalable Systems
He believes that truly scalable systems are defined by their simplicity and ease of team understanding, rather than by their technical complexity or cleverness.
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Career

Work history

1-2026
Director, Data Engineering
Horizon Next
6-2019 - 2-2026
Manager, Data Engineering
Horizon Next
7-2013 - 6-2019
Lead Data and Integration Engineer
Magellan Health
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Education
2011 - 2013
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New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
2005 - 2010
Bachelor's degree
City Tech, CUNY
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