Steve Stickel

Lead Software Engineer

Latcha+Associates•  February 2012 - Present•  Farmington, MI

Co-led development of an AI Toolkit for automated content generation using OpenAI APIs. Architected a microservice framework with Python, FastAPI, Redis, Postgres, Next.js. Managed and mentored development teams. Led full-stack and cloud development projects using Django, AWS, Stripe, and developed a Django-based CMS & API. Built TensorFlow ML object detection app and researched OpenAI for automation.

DevOps Engineer

With A Twist Studio•  August 2007 - February 2012•  Rochester Hills, MI

Managed office hardware/software infrastructure and optimized CG pipeline using Python and Bash.

School of Communication Arts

Animation, 3D Art and Animation•  September 1997 - June 1999•  Percentage: 100

Studied art, 3d animation, 3d software and built a portfolio.