Steve Bass is a software developer, working remotely for Mercato, Incorporated. He has been in industry for over eight years, across four domains of business.

Steve’s experience as engineer #4 at Mercato has been his most formative, but all of his opportunities offered great chances to help him become a scrappy generalist enterprise developer. His road to becoming a strong technologist was effortful and proved to be a challenge; Steve’s soft skills are culture-building, leading, and being an outgoing and effective communicator. His hard skills of designing and implementing pragmatic software solutions came with many long nights and much mental elbow grease.

Steve’s free time is generally occupied by rock climbing, shooting photos, playing music, and spending time with loved ones.

Steve has enjoyed becoming a slowmad™ after occasionally drifting from city to city in search for a cure for boredom and ennui. Thus far, the following proved to be effective at quelling the symptoms, but not acted as a full-blown cure:

• Rochester, NY
• Buffalo, NY
• Pittsburgh, PA
• San Diego, CA
• Grass Valley, CA

Steve holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo in Western New York.