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Steven Gates

Senior Software Engineer · Dallas, TX

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> summary

Senior Software Engineer with a decade of work shipping production cloud platforms — AWS, Azure, .NET, C#, SQL, JavaScript. Lead the team that builtcommunityarchives.com at Associa: a microservices platform doing $100M+ ARR with 50,000+ users, from a blank repo to live in production. Previously delivered an award-winning hydro-monitoring system for Tarrant County (~2.1M people) at Halff Associates. Now obsessed with what happens when an LLM gets MCP tools, persistent memory, and a heartbeat — building autonomous AI systems on Claude Code in my off-hours.

> experience

Senior Software Engineer

Associa / HOAM Technology

2019 — present

  • Lead a team of 10 architecting and shipping communityarchives.com — an end-to-end real-estate management platform. Launched 2019, now 50,000+ users and $100M+ ARR.
  • Designed and built the management portal on Angular + .NET + GraphQL + AWS (DynamoDB, RDS, Aurora, Lambda, S3, EventBridge, API Gateway). Stripe integration. 15+ report types with throttling + aggregation.
  • Architected the internal + marketplace portals to handle jurisdiction-specific licensing + showcase products across 100,000+ US locations. Elasticsearch behind the scenes.
  • Mentor a team of 5 on design patterns, debugging, performance, and the boring discipline that separates an MVP from a platform.
  • Partner with senior leadership on product direction and technical strategy.

Lead Software Developer

Halff Associates

2015 — 2019

  • Architected an award-winning hydro-monitoring and billing platform for ~2.1M people in Tarrant County, TX. Stack: C#, .NET, Azure, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL Server, ESRI GIS, QuickBooks. Won multiple Texas county awards + the company's first-ever award.
  • Built core server-side components for a groundwater management system spanning 10 Texas counties (~10M people).
  • Built a field-tech tracking site (C#, .NET Core, Vue.js, SQL Server) used by 10,000+ field technicians to drop markers on hard-to-locate oil wells.
  • Internal employee-services platform for the company's 25k+ staff: trainings, seminars, certifications.

> personal projects

Kayley_Cowork

solo · since 2026

  • Autonomous companion agent on Claude Code. 4-step cognitive loop + multi-channel ingress (Telegram, Ring cameras, Gmail, calendar). 1.5M+ row long-term memory. case study →

Loan Tracker MCP

solo · since 2026

  • An agentic website — no input fields, voice-driven. The MCP server is the protocol; the page visualizes. case study →

MilaGates

solo · since 2025

  • Family-facing scrapbook + milestone log for my daughter. Live at milagates.com.

Gatesflix

solo · since 2017

  • Private Netflix-clone hosting 2,000+ purchased films. C# + .NET + MVC + Synology NAS + VLC + IMDb integration.