Edward Steel
Software Engineer at Treasure Data
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolEdward Steel is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years building scalable, distributed backend systems from Vancouver, BC. He has driven platform and automation work at Hootsuite and Treasure Data, specializing in concurrent, resilient services and DevOps integrations. A steady open-source contributor, Edward has enhanced projects like HashiCorp Consul (HTTP API and prepared queries) and Digdag (AWS ECS integration and retry semantics), and improved battery-monitoring resilience in the taffybar status bar. He focuses on pragmatic refactors, robust API behavior, and clear documentation to make systems easier to operate and extend. Collected experience across startups and enterprise environments gives him a knack for balancing operational reliability with shipping features. He studied Computer Science at the University of Warwick and often surfaces small but meaningful operational fixes that reduce long-term maintenance overhead.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Computer Science, BSc Hons, Computer Science at University of WarwickIB, IB at Bonn International School
German
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Github Skills (32)
apim10
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
http10
java10
javas10
consul10
dag10
workflow-automation10
api10
go10
rest-api10
haskell10
testing9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
treasure-data/digdag
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
Workload Automation System
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 15 commits, 12 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Edward primarily contributed to improving the Digdag workflow automation system. Their work included fixing documentation typos, clarifying documentation around retry mechanisms, and updating the documentation itself. They also added functionality to integrate with AWS ECS, including a `max_retries` option. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to task request models, notifications and refactored code for improved configuration management.
workload-automationdigdagsystem-automationautomationworkload
hashicorp/consul
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Edward primarily focused on enhancing the agent HTTP API within the Consul project. Their work included implementing support for OPTIONS requests, which involved registering endpoints with supported methods and handling method validation. Additionally, the user made changes to facilitate prepared query handling. The user's contributions involved code modifications in `agent/http_oss.go`, `agent/http.go`, and `agent/prepared_query_endpoint.go`, suggesting a focus on API functionality and request handling. The user also implemented tests for endpoints.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
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