Stephen Rylander

Stephen values teamwork and pragmatic approaches to innovation. With extensive experience in software engineering, architecture, quality management, and leadership across finance, e-commerce, entertainment, and risk domains, he currently leads gloal engineering at DFIN, developing industry-leading financial software for some of the world's largest financial service customers and capital markets. Previously, he managed engineering and quality for Morningstar's data, retirement, and investor products. Stephen authored Patterns of Software Construction, was an early adopter of continuous integration patterns, a firm advocate for strong engineering fundamentals, and has contributed to numerous modernization projects.

Stephen lives outside of Chicago with his beautiful wife, daughter, son, two cats and an amazing Portuguese Waterdog. He loves software, reading, 80's comedies and strong, dark coffee.