Patrick Stephens
Software Engineer at Thales
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Stephens is a cloud-native software engineer with eight years of professional experience building and automating resilient platforms, currently focused on Kubernetes, Go, and Fluent Bit. He has led high-stakes migrations and integrations—most notably moving Calyptia’s entire product and tooling into Chronosphere with minimal downtime and supporting SOC2/ISO27001 accreditation post-migration. A maintainer in the CNCF Fluent ecosystem, he automated build, test and release pipelines (adding Cosign signatures and Trivy scanning) for widely used projects like fluent-bit, improving supply-chain security and reproducibility. Patrick blends hands-on systems work (operators, Go microservices, C/C++ plugins) with developer advocacy, conference speaking and technical writing, and has a background delivering platform-as-a-service solutions across multinational teams at Thales. Based in Manchester, he co-founded Telemetry Forge to commercialise observability R&D, demonstrating both product and infrastructure leadership.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Colchester Royal Grammar SchoolBEng Hons(2:1), Computer Science, BEng Hons(2:1), Computer Science at University of York
English, French
Github Skills (20)
github-ci10
docker10
scripting10
packaging10
bash10
dockers10
automation10
script10
ci-cd-pipeline10
sh10
automations10
shell10
githubaction-workflow10
centos9
amazon-linux9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
fluent/fluent-bit
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Fast and Lightweight Logs and Metrics processor for Linux, BSD, OSX and Windows
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:5 releases, 478 reviews, 270 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the automation of the build, test, and release processes for the Fluent Bit project. They implemented new workflows to automate the build and testing of releases using a staging environment, including the verification of packages and container builds. The user also focused on enhancing the release process by adding support for Ubuntu Jammy, fixing issues related to repo creation, and adding scripts for uploading packages to new servers or buckets. Their contributions include changes to scripts related to packaging, release promotion, and the sync process to ensure reliable and efficient software delivery.
data-collectorpromqlloggingprometheuscloudnative
chronosphereio/calyptia-core-fluent-bit-dummy
May 2022 - Aug 2024
A Calyptia Core fluent-bit plugin providing dummy input.
Contributions:1 release, 10 reviews, 27 PRs in 2 years 3 months
ltsplugin
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