Summary
Stephen Cross is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at SpecterOps with over a decade of experience delivering scalable cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and automation solutions. He has led build-once, run-anywhere container strategies for ML pipelines and transitioned legacy web app CI/CD to parallelized GitHub Actions, slashing release times from 40 minutes to 14 minutes. His tech stack spans AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions, complemented by strong scripting in Python, Bash, PHP, and Perl, and deep observability with OpenSearch, Logstash, Kibana, and CloudWatch. Outside work, Stephen maintains a 22-year home lab focused on Linux/BSD, enterprise networking, and containerization, and runs self-hosted GPU-accelerated ML models for audio transcription, face recognition, and real-time object detection. Based in Bainbridge, Georgia, he thrives on cross-team collaboration to build reliable, secure platforms and is always pursuing new challenges in cloud infrastructure and DevOps.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Eagle's View Academy
Florida State College at Jacksonville