Steve Christensen
Principal Software Engineer at Care.com
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Christensen is a Principal Software Engineer with over 11 years of experience building developer-focused platforms across industries including flight simulation, storage, healthcare publishing, ecommerce, and blockchain. He specializes in platform engineering, observability (notably OpenTelemetry), and developer experience—helping teams adopt IaC, CI/CD, and cloud-native patterns to reduce operational toil. Steve excels at bridging gaps between development, operations, and security, and has led modernization efforts using Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, and Google Cloud. His background from QA to technical lead gives him a practical, empathy-driven approach to tooling and documentation that improves team productivity. He has hands-on experience designing secure services (including multi-signature crypto wallets) and production troubleshooting for large-scale systems. Based in Salt Lake City, he enjoys turning peer pain points into measurable platform improvements.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahOlympus High School
English
Stackoverflow
61reputation
58kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (131)
random-generation10
rpg10
helm10
dice10
android-app10
android10
docker10
continuous-delivery9
kustomize9
jsonnet9
pipeline9
developer-tools9
dart9
guice9
windows9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
stevesea/Adventuresmith
Sep 2016 - Jul 2021
Generate tabletop RPG nonsense at the push of a button! (on Android)
Contributions:37 releases, 563 commits, 29 PRs in 4 years 10 months
androidrpgrpg-dice-rollernpcrandom-generation
stevesea/zsh-quickstart-kit
Oct 2021 - Sep 2025
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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