Steve Arriola is the Director of Information Technology at MINDBODY and has been with the company since January 2002. As the Director of IT Steve has been responsible for architecting, implementing and maintaining the information systems powering MINDBODY's web presence. Steve also served a year long sting as a Senior Software Developer where he focused on designing and implementing the foundations of the MINDBODY Web Service API.
Steve's professional background involves a mixture of information technology development and information technology operations. Prior to MINDBODY, Steve was involved with developing and supporting multiple retail point-of-sale systems. Along with point-of-sale development Steve's background has focused on high availability and redundancy of software services. This prior experience and background knowledge was instrumental in designing the highly redundant information systems currently in use at MINDBODY.
Outside of MINDBODY, Steve has been involved in various software related side projects such as developing a major online video game and designing automated financial trading systems using artificial intelligence. Steve is also an avid adventure traveller and has visited such off-the-beaten locales as North Korea and the 'Stans of Central Asia.