Stephen Berry

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Engineering Manager at Bridge Pay · Kubeflow, Python

Bridge Pay
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
7+ years experience
University of Florida
English
Hiring
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Overview

7 years in software engineering, the last 1 at Bridge Pay, where I lead the ML platform team. Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 28 minutes to under 6. Trail runner and occasional climber.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Second opinions on feature stores decisions
  • Questions about ML infrastructure
  • Working sessions on PyTorch
Please don't message about
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Generic networking requests

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
PyTorchKubeflowfeature storesPythonmodel serving
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for a security engineer who has worked on PyTorch at scale

Role
Security engineer
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$140k-$184k
Team
ML platform, 4 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with PyTorch Production experience with feature stores Clear written communication
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $144k-$270k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

New York, NYmodel servingpytorchkubeflow
Open

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2026 - Present
    Bridge Pay · 9 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Brought on-call pages for ML platform down from 12 a week to 2.
    • Led the migration of 33 services to feature stores.
    • Moved 73% of ML platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. ML Engineer
    Nov 2024 - Jan 2026
    Block · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
    • Taught SQL to 189 non-analysts.
  3. ML Engineer
    Jan 2021 - Nov 2024
    Goldman Sachs · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Taught SQL to 183 non-analysts.
  4. ML Engineer
    Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
    Oracle · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Taught SQL to 141 non-analysts.
    • Replaced 74 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

Projects

Write-up: ML infrastructure in practice
2025

A long-form guide to ML infrastructure for people starting out.

Conference talk: lessons from ML platform
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling ML infrastructure.

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Education

  1. University of Florida
    BS, Information Technology
    2014 - 2018

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