Steven R
Staff Software Engineer at Slack
Snoqualmie, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSteven R is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building resilient networking and distributed systems, currently shaping core infrastructure and CI/CD at Slack. His background spans deep EC2 networking work at AWS (VPC dataplane, CloudWatch Internet Monitoring) and platform architecture roles at Fingerprint and Ookla, where he led platform refactors and migrations. He combines hands-on systems development—kernel and embedded networking expertise—with incident leadership and operational design for large-scale services. Based in Snoqualmie, WA, he pairs his technical work with frontline emergency response as an EMT and mountain rescuer, bringing calm decision-making under pressure. Steven is known for bridging low-level networking diagnostics (tcpdump maintainer at AWS) with higher-level developer tooling and observability. He emphasizes reliability, measurable monitoring, and practical architecture that reduces operational toil.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Affiliate Researcher, Networking, Affiliate Researcher, Networking at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English, Czech
Github Skills (44)
search-engine10
java10
rest10
elasticsearch10
opensearch9
boto9
amazon-web-services9
restful9
salesforce8
go8
dax8
kafka8
fingerprintjs-pro8
cms8
programming-language8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
srri-zz/Project-Apollo
Jul 2011 - Apr 2013
Contributions:106 commits in 1 year 8 months
srri-zz/OpenRelay
Oct 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:31 commits in 1 month
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