Steven Powell
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Powell is a Software Engineer with six years of experience building cloud-native systems and developer tooling, currently at Google in San Francisco. He has a strong background in Kubernetes, custom Linux distributions, and desktop tooling that simplifies CLI workflows, and previously designed cost- and availability-improving Docker/Kubernetes patterns at Priceline. Steven introduced production Go services and resilient HTTP client patterns that were adopted company-wide, demonstrating both technical ownership and pragmatic design. Early experience across payments and enterprise tooling shows a knack for low-level reliability work and shipping first-of-kind projects like .NET Core services. He combines systems-level thinking with developer experience improvements, often prototyping new methodologies before wider rollout.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Manitoba
English
Github Skills (87)
docker-machine10
docker-desktop10
k8s10
multiarch10
kubernetes-cluster10
developer-tools10
kubernetes10
continuous-integration10
go10
docker10
release-management10
openflow10
minikube10
mesos9
podman9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/minikube-gui
Feb 2022 - Mar 2023
GUI for minikube
Contributions:128 reviews, 133 commits, 128 PRs in 1 year
minikubekubernetes
spowelljr/minikube-gui
Dec 2022 - Jan 2024
Use minikube from a GUI
Contributions:6 PRs, 128 pushes, 58 branches in 1 year 1 month
guiminikube
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