Kevin Schoonover
Senior Software Developer at stratos.host
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Schoonover is a Senior Software Developer with nine years of engineering experience and a 5+ year track record building developer- and customer-focused systems across cloud, networking, and observability domains. He has driven production-scale telemetry at Microsoft Azure—extending OpenTelemetry to trace individual packets and building pipelines processing ~1.4M spans/sec—while also co-founding stratos.host to orchestrate multi-cloud hosting with Nomad, Consul, Vault, Pulumi, and GitHub Actions. A prolific open-source contributor and HashiCorp core contributor, his work spans Terraform provider improvements, Consul/Consul‑Template PKI logic, and Nomad agent enhancements. Kevin pairs deep systems and backend engineering in Go, Rust, C/C++, and Python with pragmatic DevOps and automation skills, and he has a knack for reducing operational toil (e.g., tools that saved tens of thousands of engineering hours). Based in Bellevue, WA, he combines hands-on implementation with mentorship experience and a demonstrated ability to turn complex distributed problems into observable, maintainable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology
English
Github Skills (20)
apidoc10
testing10
configuration-management10
http10
authentication10
user-authentication10
terraform10
terraformer10
go10
api10
vault10
auth10
consul9
digitalocean8
fingerprinting8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alexkappa/terraform-provider-auth0
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
ARCHIVED Auth0 Terraform Provider. This project is now being maintained at: https://github.com/auth0/terraform-provider-auth0
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 7 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on enhancing the Auth0 Terraform provider. Their contributions included adding support for Management API tokens, which involved modifying provider configuration and testing infrastructure. They addressed review comments and refactored code related to authentication and configuration validation, specifically in the `provider.go` and `provider_test.go` files. Additional work involved updating test environments for validating API token configuration through environment variables.
authterraform-providerterraformauth0
hashicorp/nomad
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to the `hashicorp/nomad` repository, primarily focusing on agent configuration and HTTP server functionalities. They modified the agent's configuration to support multiple HTTP addresses and implemented changes related to HTTP server setup and token parsing. The commits also include updates to the fingerprinting mechanism, specifically adding a DigitalOcean fingerprinter and addressing associated issues. Furthermore, the user made small fixes and addressed comments to enhance the code quality and functionality.
consulmicroservicesvault
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