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Steve Lacy is a highly experienced software engineer with over 15 years of experience in Silicon Valley. He has worked in both pre-IPO startups and large-scale software development, making him a versatile professional. Steve is currently working as a software engineer at Wing, where he is responsible for developing large-scale infrastructure components and services using C++ and user-facing web applications using Python+Django. Steve's past experience includes working as a software engineer at Google, where he developed and deployed the video serving infrastructure for the initial launch of Google Video in late 2005. He also grew and optimized video serving for Google Video, utilizing core Google technologies for scalability. Steve designed and developed the CDN system used for scaling video infrastructure beyond the capacities of Google's data centers, to meet the scale and cost requirements of YouTube. He continued to optimize storage and caching of video content to match the growth of YouTube through 2009. Steve transitioned to the Ads Quality team in late 2009, where he worked in Python on an internal web frontend for ads quality evaluation. His focus was on web frontend performance and caching. Steve has also filed several patent applications during his time at Google. Steve's educational background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics/Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, which he obtained in 1994. Steve is a skilled software engineer with expertise in web development, infrastructure development, Python, Django, and frontend development. With 27.22 years of relevant experience, Steve is a valuable asset to any organization he works with.