Software Engineer

Stephen Ali

Stephen works at Netflix on the payments team.

San Francisco, CAJava 21 / Spring BootgRPC + Gradle
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Engineering Stack

Languages, frameworks, and systems concepts used in production.

Languages

  • checkJava
  • checkPython
  • checkKotlin
  • checkC
  • checkC++

Frameworks & Tools

  • checkSpring Boot
  • checkRuby on Rails
  • checkFlask
  • checkASP.NET
  • checkgRPC
  • checkElasticsearch
  • checkKibana
  • checkGradle

Core Concepts

  • checkDistributed Systems
  • checkPayment Reconciliation
  • checkOperating Systems
  • checkVirtual Memory
  • checkAPI Design
  • checkDatabase Normalization
  • checkAgile Methodology
  • checkCloud Computing
  • checkMachine Learning

Experience Snapshot

Career highlights and education milestones.
'25

July 2025 - Present

Software Engineer 4, Payment Integration & Optimization

Netflix

Built a mission-critical gRPC reconciliation service in Java 21 and Spring Boot to align processor activity with internal transactions and improve payment reliability.

'23

Dec 2023 - July 2025

Software Engineer 3, Payments

Netflix

Redesigned core payment workflows, removed legacy Elasticsearch dependencies, launched real-time operational controls, and migrated processor traffic into a modernized gateway architecture.

'23

May 2023 - Aug 2023

Software Engineer Intern, Billing Platform

Netflix

Developed internal Spring Boot APIs, indexed billing metadata, and built Kibana forecasting dashboards that improved on-call efficiency by 50%+.

'22

Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

Software Engineer Intern

Cisco Meraki

Built backend features and APIs in Ruby on Rails for real-time sensor ingestion, alert automation, and managed device operations.

'23

Dec 2023

B.S. in Computer Science

University of South Florida

Coursework included data structures and algorithms, computer architecture, database design, and linear algebra with computational applications.

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