Stephen Rogouski

Software Engineer

Summary

Experienced C# / .NET engineer building multi-tiered web applications, APIs, and application portals across agency and enterprise environments. Deep background designing, developing, and deploying reusable, maintainable solutions, from customer-facing and internal services to admin tools and content management systems, with a growing focus on cloud, serverless, and AI-driven integrations.

Skills

Recent Projects

MCP Server (Python / FastMCP) - Proof of Concept

2025
  • Built a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in Python using the FastMCP framework to expose custom tools and data sources to AI assistants over the MCP standard.
  • Implemented tool and resource handlers, request/response schemas, and transport wiring so LLM clients can discover and invoke capabilities.

MCP Client (Vercel AI SDK) - Proof of Concept

2025
  • Built an MCP client on the Vercel AI SDK that connects to MCP servers, discovers their tools, and lets a language model call them within a chat workflow.
  • Integrated tool-calling and streaming responses, demonstrating end-to-end communication between the model, the client, and the MCP server.

QA Feeder Modernization (Serverless Python)

2025
  • Re-architecting a legacy QA Feeder application into a serverless Python application to reduce operational overhead and improve scalability.
  • Replacing always-on infrastructure with event-driven, pay-per-use serverless components while preserving existing functionality.

Experience

Software Engineer, Application Portals - Associated Press

Jan 2015 - Present
  • Full-stack engineer on the Application Portals team, delivering and maintaining a portfolio of business-critical web applications and APIs across a range of technologies and architectures.
  • Develop and maintain the Ebiz API, a C# / .NET Core service backed by SQL Server that powers the company's customer-facing websites.
  • Develop and maintain the Backoffice API, a C# / .NET Core service backed by SQL Server that supports internal applications and business operations.
  • Modernizing a legacy QA Feeder application by re-architecting it into a serverless Python application to reduce operational overhead and improve scalability.
  • Contribute to SalesDashboard, a Node.js / Angular application, developing front-end and service functionality.
  • Serve as lead developer on eAPAdmin, a long-standing ASP.NET WebForms admin site, owning its maintenance and enhancements and keeping a legacy application stable and current alongside modern services.

ASP.NET Developer - Associated Press

May 2008 - Jan 2015
  • Development and maintenance for AP application portals.
  • Built a C# Portal Management system with an ExtJS interface for hierarchical management of portals on the AP Exchange website.
  • Developed the AP Microsite Admin, the primary tool for managing AP microsites (including the award-winning Olympics Winter Games and College Football sites), in C# on the AP Images framework.
  • Built a showroom management tool for cropping, sizing, and reordering images to management-specified dimensions.
  • Developed a reusable AP Country Music widget bundling text, photo, audio, and video into a single interface (jQuery, DHTML, C# 3.5, Master Pages, LINQ).

Lead ASP.NET Developer / Architect - Ferrara & Company

Mar 2005 - Mar 2008
  • Main developer and architect of eatyourbest.com, a custom C# CMS with a SQL Server back end. Wrote stored procedures, client-side UI, and the business layer.

Web Consultant - Rogonet

Jan 2002 - Mar 2005
  • Designed and coded websites for clients including Wyman Ford, QMed, Lifesign, Myers & Depew, and Lensearch.

Creative Development - World Internet Resources

1998 - 2002
  • Designed and programmed websites from concept to completion using Adobe products, HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, and Dreamweaver.

Education

B.S., Computer Science - Rutgers University, New Brunswick

2002 - 2004

Beyond Software

Author - Hal Leonard LLC

2008 - 2010
  • Wrote Arpeggios for the Modern Guitarist under the pseudonym Stephen Ross.

Recording Artist & Guitarist

1990 - 1997
  • Signed to Shrapnel Records as composer, guitarist, and producer; released the album Midnight Drive and appeared on numerous compilations. Toured the U.S. as a professional guitarist.