• Solaris
  • Android
  • Windows
  • Android Studio
  • Git
  • Visual Studio
  • Unity















Stephen Docy

Software Developer
Beaverton, OR

I truly have had a life-long passion for designing software to solve all kinds of challenging problems. My professional background in Systems Programming has taught me how to approach complex, technical problems and to deliver solutions which are clean, robust and maintainable. Recently, I have been exploring the capabilities of Unity and learning how to develop mobile apps on Android with Java and XML. Working with Unity and Android, I enjoy letting my creativity and inquisitive nature take over and guide what I design.

At the beginning of the year, I was awarded a GrowWithGoogle scholarship for access to Udacity's Android Development program. I have thoroughly enjoyed the course and the challenges and creative opportunities of developing on the Android platform. My extensive programming experience and ability to learn quickly have allowed me to progress rapidly through the course and I am excited to see what opportunities await me.

If you have need of an experienced developer with a proven history of dealing with technically complex systems and designs, of collaborating with both internal and external development teams to successfully deliver critical features and of enthusiastically encouraging and mentoring others, then I look forward to hearing from you and seeing if we might have a future together.


Featured Project

Grid Music - My flagship app began as a simple music layout project and, through continued extracurricular development, has evolved into a rich, full-featured music-player with unique, highly customizable, graphical playlists. This multi-activity app includes successful integration and adaptation of many advanced topics covered in my Android Development course as well as functionality learned independently.


Have comments or questions about one of my projects or my Systems Programming background,
or have something going on that could use a seasoned coder?

Drop me a line at

sdocy@comcast.net
  • C
  • Java
  • C++
  • C#
  • XML
  • Perl
  • UNIX Shell
  • HTML5
  • CSS















Android Development

  • Awarded Udacity Android Development Nanodegree program scholarship
    • One of the top 10% students in the GrowWithGoogle program that was awarded a scholarship for the full Udacity Android Development Nanodegree program at the end of the introduction program.

    • Chosen as a Student Leader in recognition of support and assistance provided to other students.

  • Projects :
    • Developed a feature-rich quiz app for the final project, utilizing dynamic view resizing to make efficient use of limited screen size.
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    • Completed phase 1 of the course early and continued to learn by porting a BlackJack game I had developed with Unity and C# to Android using XML and Java.
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    • Designed a music player app which features user-definable, grid-based playlists which allow users to create highly customized music playlists. The class project did not include a requirement to actually play music (we hadn't learned how to do that yet), but I really love how the app came out and have been continuing to work on it, getting it to actually play music from your phone.
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    • Our next project was a tour guide app using Fragments, ViewPagers and TabLayouts to provide graceful access to multiple pages of information. I'm sure Portland has more than enough apps devoted to it, so I created an app for visiting Mordor.
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    • Implemented an app to download music cover art. My music player, Grid Music, is coming along very well, but its very graphical nature requires a full set of music cover art in order to be fully appreciated. So when I learned how to perform network operations, including retrieving and parsing JSON data, I immediately began designing an art downloader. Incorporating many advanced Android development techniques I had just learned, the prototype turned out quite well and is ready to be integrated into Grid Music.
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Games and Simulations

  • Data Structures and Algorithms Tutorial
    • Developed proof of concept for graphical tutorial for Computer Science data structures and algorithms. Algorithm execution and data structure manipulation are graphically displayed, with support for continuous and step-by-step execution.
      Project Webpage Project Repo

  • BlackJack game
  • Battle Simulator
    • Implemented battle simulator to investigate game object interaction and to push limits of game scalability. Current implementation supports 4000 autonomous units with each unit controlling its own movement, targeting and attacking.
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  • Gangs of Mordor
    • Designing UI driven game in which a young Orc captain tries to maintain an outpost on a remote border of Mordor after Sauron's defeat.
      Project Webpage Project Repo

Systems Programmer


Expanded my role as technical lead for Oracle Solaris Cluster product, coordinating multi-group efforts to deliver highly available storage solutions with short hiatus to research low latency remote shared memory communication prototype.

  • Investigated technical issues and gaps in Solaris physical to virtual migration tools and outlined Cloud migration path for customers running on legacy Oracle hardware; key component in Oracle's new focus on Cloud solutions.

  • Returned to Solaris Cluster and immediately addressed backlog of bugs in global devices area, significantly reducing overall count, including identifying and resolving 2 critical bug fixes.

  • Researched application of software-on-silicon and hypervisor technologies, providing low latency interprocess, inter-node communication.
    • Designed and implemented Coherent Memory Interface library based on evolving specification, serving as user API for managing remote shared memory.
    • Built event framework used to deliver asynchronous errors to CMI client applications, allowing RMA device driver to communicate intricate error conditions to users.

  • Coordinated with Oracle Solaris Cluster QA and EMC engineers, investigating, defining and resolving issues related to supporting EMC VPLEX on Oracle Solaris Cluster.

  • Served as C-team tech lead, driving delivery of technical content for Oracle Solaris Cluster's 3.3u2 and 4.1 releases, including integration of new features and meeting Solaris Cluster's aggressive quality requirements.



Technical lead for several clustering projects in Sun Cluster Global Data and Devices group with significant experience integrating storage-related technologies. Designed and implemented features and enhancements to meet product requirements. Worked with Quality Assurance debugging and addressing code defects. Provided technical input to product publications team delivering user documentation for new features.

  • Led team which defined Sun Cluster requirements for Network Attached Storage and worked closely with internal (Oracle ZFSSA) and external (NetApp) storage teams, delivering support for new NAS products; solutions consistently requested by customers.

  • Designed extensible Network Attached Storage failure fencing framework, allowing support for new NAS devices to be implemented with minimal development effort.

  • Delivered support for storage replication technology, key component in Sun Cluster’s Disaster Recovery Solutions through collaboration with EMC and Hitachi engineering teams.

  • Authored Sun Cluster's multi-pathing failure fencing specification, allowing storage partners to deliver support for multi-pathing device drivers (Solaris MPxIO, Veritas DMP, EMC PowerPath); key technology for improving storage device fault tolerance.

  • Improved availability of Sun Cluster by implementing support for Sun's Dynamic Reconfiguration framework, allowing I/O boards and Kernel Cage Memory to be configured on live cluster systems.

  • Designed Sun Cluster 3.0's failure fencing support, utilizing SPC-3 Persistent Group Reservations, offering greater reliability and storage configuration flexibility than fencing offered by Sun Cluster 2.2.

  • Implemented support for Veritas Volume Manager, allowing Sun Cluster 3.0 product to aggressively compete with Veritas Cluster Server.





Member Portland Indie Game Squad

Member UnityPDX

Mentor Hillsboro High School Game Programming Club




Personal Interests

  • game design
  • aikido
  • poker
  • sci-fi and fantasy
  • music
  • astronomy
  • mathematics
  • sharks