Lars Kellogg-stedman
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLars Kellogg-stedman is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading platform and reliability work at Red Hat from Somerville, MA. He specializes in OpenShift/Kubernetes, containers (Docker/Podman), Ansible, and Python, and has deep operational experience across OpenStack, cloud-init, and Kolla deployments. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core projects from OpenStack and Ansible to CircuitPython—where he enhanced ESP8266 networking support—demonstrating a rare blend of large-scale cloud systems and embedded/IoT expertise. Lars pairs systems-level architecture with hands-on engineering and test-driven improvements, and in his free time prototypes on ESP8266, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi, often shipping practical hardware-software integrations.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Binghamton University
Stackoverflow
294,504reputation
27.7mreached
4,559answers
103questions
git-push
top-5%
grep
top-5%
google-sheets-api
top-5%
prometheus
top-5%
curl
top-5%
dictionary
top-5%
Github Skills (150)
restructuredtext10
github10
python10
testing10
filename10
bash10
ipfs10
ubuntu10
automation10
infrastructure10
dockerfile10
dronekit10
embedded10
ansible-galaxy10
ssh10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/kolla
Sep 2014 - Jun 2018
Kolla provides production-ready containers and deployment tools for operating OpenStack clouds. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:91 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Lars's contributions primarily revolve around configuring and maintaining infrastructure for the OpenStack Kolla project. They updated and modified scripts related to database setup, image creation, and service configuration for components like Keystone, Glance, and Nova. The user also implemented automation using tools like `crux` and contributed to health check scripts and logging enhancements, indicating a focus on operational aspects and improved containerized deployments.
containerskolladeploymentproduction-readycloud-foundry
ArduPilot/ardupilot_wiki
Jan 2017 - Sep 2019
Repository for ArduPilot wiki issues and wiki-specific website infrastructure.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 9 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Lars primarily contributed to the documentation of the ArduPilot wiki, focusing on improving clarity and accuracy. Their work involved fixing grammatical errors, clarifying ambiguous sections, and adding or updating information on features like FrSky telemetry and arming procedures. Furthermore, the user made significant improvements to the layout and content of existing documentation, restructuring tables and removing obsolete references.
ardupilotinfrastructuretiddlywiki5autopilotwiki
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.