Jo Stevens
AI ML Ops Engineer at Arcade.dev
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRiver Stevens is an AI/ML Ops Engineer and seasoned infrastructure leader with a decade of experience building secure, cloud-native platforms and developer experiences from Salesforce to fast-growing startups in San Francisco. He has led engineering and security functions at Ascend.io—scaling Kubernetes to >1500 nodes, normalizing multi-cloud deployments, and serving as CISO with a penetration-test–validated platform. River combines hands-on expertise in Terraform, Flux/GitOps, observability stacks (Loki/Mimir/Tempo), and resilient autoscaling to operate hundreds of thousands of Spark clusters daily while minimizing cost and maintenance. Equally comfortable mentoring teams and influencing product strategy, he has a track record of turning complex operational constraints into pragmatic, auditable solutions. Now focused on AI/ML ops at Arcade.dev, he brings both strategic leadership and deep implementation chops that bridge security, networking, and developer productivity. An early career background building game AI and tutoring math/physics hints at a practical, analytical mindset that fuels his infrastructure problem-solving.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Engineering Computer Science at University of MichiganHigh School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Saratoga High School
Github Skills (160)
ebpf10
grafana10
bpf10
prometheus-exporter10
security10
gcp10
serverless10
k8s10
monitoring10
kubernetes-networking10
lambda10
kubernetes10
observability10
database-access10
storage10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thejosephstevens/docs
Dec 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
thejosephstevens/merge-sort
May 2018 - Oct 2020
Merge sort implemented in Go for an arbitrary number of arrays with multi-worker processing.
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
golangmerge-sortarbitraryarraysmerge
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