Andy Steed
Sr. Computer Engineer, Platform Core Services
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Steed is a senior platform engineer with 11+ years building secure, network-centric cloud and cross-platform solutions, currently leading Platform Core Services at Adobe from San Jose. He led the GA launch and multi-region expansion of Adobe IO Runtime, orchestrated a live migration of production traffic and data between AWS and Azure, and maintains high-availability services used by millions. Andy blends deep systems engineering across Windows, macOS, Linux and cloud stacks with a rigorous focus on cryptographic protections for sensitive data and pragmatic release governance. He also contributes to Apache OpenWhisk backend improvements, showing an ongoing commitment to serverless and open-source correctness. Known for thriving on complex multi-component projects, he balances portability and speed-to-market with accountable, secure delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
George Mason University
German
Github Skills (14)
functions-as-a-service10
serverless-architectures10
apache10
openwhisk10
scala10
api-design9
docker8
kubernetes8
javas8
cosmosdb8
kubernetes-pods8
java8
dockers8
database-administration7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/openwhisk
Sep 2018 - Feb 2020
Apache OpenWhisk is an open source serverless cloud platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 11 PRs, 21 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Andy contributed to the Apache OpenWhisk project by implementing and modifying backend functionalities. Their work involved restricting allowed namespaces for action creation, integrating support for allowedKinds limits within the wskadmin and wskadmin-next tools, and preventing circular references in package bindings. The user also updated the KindRestrictor to merge namespace and default whitelists and added '_deleted' to includePaths for CosmosDB IndexingPolicy validation, demonstrating a focus on code correctness and feature enhancement.
serverless-cloudfunctionsserverlessapachedocker
grinnery/crafts
Mar 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:2 comments, 1 issue in 5 years 2 months
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