General
Stephen Mardson McQuay
mail: stephen at mcquay dot me
personal site: mcquay.me
last updated: 2019-01-09
Software Engineer
May 2018 - Present
Apple Inc., Cupertino CA
  • Distributed Systems Software Engineering
Software Engineer
Sept 2017 - May 2018
Wish, San Francisco CA
  • Container orchestration with Kubernetes, with a Wish-specific network model
  • Participated in late-2017 stability effort, adding observability into the data proxy layer, and providing Go expertise
Software Engineer
October 2012 - Sept 2017
Apple Inc., Cupertino CA
  • Distributed systems software development (HPC batch scheduler)
  • Services and tooling for internal compute infrastructure
  • Built a system Package manager to aide in internal software deployment
  • Device-level testing automation
Software Engineer
September 2012 - October 2012
SpaceMonkey, SLC UT
Software Engineer
June 2011 - August 2012
Fusion-io, SLC UT
  • Web application (Django) for device serialization and customer part tracking
  • Python libraries for NAND validation
Professional Services Engineer
Dec 2007 - May 2011
Adaptive Computing Enterprises (formerly Cluster Resources), Provo UT
  • Professional Services - Python application development
  • Presales - assisting sales team in answering and explaining technical aspects of our products.
Internship
May 2007 - Aug 2007
Pratt & Whitney East Hartford
  • Integrated in-house Fortran code into API
  • Worked with MPI-based API for large-scale multi-physics simulation
Research Assistant
Jan 2006 - Dec 2007
BYU Mechanical Engineering Department
  • Application Development: CFD integration and automation
  • Multi-physics Computational Fluid Dynamics integration
Co-op
Jan 2005 - Dec 2005
Pratt & Whitney East Hartford
  • Collaborated design changes on preliminary engines
  • Received Appreciation Awards from two different groups
  • Modeled parametric parts for a parametric jet engine
Pace Research Group
April 2004 - Dec 2004
BYU Mechanical Engineering Department
  • Experience with Fluent, Gambit and Altair HyperMesh
  • Created documentation for students, used in ME 412
Teaching Assistant
Sept 2002 - Dec 2004
BYU Mechanical Engineering Department
  • Taught in-class presentations to over 50 students
  • Over 1000 hours of Parametric CAD Modeling
Teaching Assistant
Sept 2001 - Sept 2002
BYU Math and French Departments
  • Graded Assignments for Calculus
  • Graded Assignments for French
Education
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Fall 2006 - Passed Defense July 5th, 2011; Graduated April 2012
Brigham Young University
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Dec 2006
Brigham Young University
  • Member of Tau Beta Pi - Engineering Honors Society
  • Tuition Scholastic Scholarship Fall 1998-Winter 2003
Skills
  • I have been writing Go since 2012. Here are a few example works:
    • cs -- a program that performs a wide collection of checksums against files in parallel
    • Hackerbots -- the back-end is a highly concurrent app that I have been working on with Fraser Graham
    • allowances -- a simple app to keep track of our children's allowances
    • Mardson Math Game -- A little web app to help my child learn arithmetic
    • servedir -- a (safer) replacement for python -m SimpleHTTPServer
    • jsoon -- a replacement for python -m json.tool
    • lim -- a program that truncates a stream of bytes to a certain size
  • I have been using Python professionally since 2009
  • Database: PostGreSQL, sqlite, etc.
  • I am moderately proficient with other tools required to get one's job done on a Unix system (vim, bash/zsh, general Unix tooling (grep, awk, xargs, etc.), tmux, curl, mutt, etc.)
  • Snowman piece accepted in Blender Art magazine issue 25 (attributed to Stefan McQuay).
Open source
  • Projects started by me: please see personal software
  • Reported and fixed bug in how go get interprets vanity urls
  • Contributed nameserver lookups to go
  • Clarified some documentation in json package go
  • blender -- Primarily documentation. I researched the feasibility and utility of adding Dyn/Zorin Butterfly interpolation as an alternative option for surface subdivision (surfaces)
Mechanical Engineering-specific Skills:
  • Emphasis in Thermal/Fluids - passion for heat management and designing systems for efficiency
  • OpenFOAM - Open Source Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluent/Gambit - Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • UGS/Siemens NX - Computer Aided Design
  • Octave, Scilab, and Matlab - Mathematics packages
Spoken Languages:
  • French - spoken with near-native proficiency
  • German - conversational
  • Portuguese - conversational
Presentations
Volunteer Experience
Clear Horizons Academy
October 2012
  • Implemented a Django web application to keep track of auction dinner inventory and winners.
Full-Time Volunteer
Sept 1999 - Sept 2001
Paris, France Mission
  • Appointed to acquire, maintain, and remit over 100 apartments in the Parisian area (Jan - June '01)
  • Designed and implemented a program to improve health and safety in volunteer apartments
  • Organized and Taught English Courses to French natives
references available upon request