Sarah Stephan
Senior DevSecOps Engineer at SciTec, Inc.
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Stephan is a Senior DevSecOps Engineer with nine years of experience building secure, automated backend services and CI/CD platforms across hybrid and air-gapped environments. She combines deep expertise in Kubernetes/OpenShift, Docker, Helm, GitLab pipelines, and IaC with hands-on language skills in Python, PHP, and Go to deliver reliable microservices at scale. At SciTec she led DevSecOps for a 200+ engineer program, slashing 1,200 CVEs to zero in ten months through SAST/DAST/SCA and process standardization. Previously at IBM she helped ship core cloud networking and security features—contributing Terraform support for Transit Gateways and improving Security Groups across API and hypervisor layers. Pragmatic about reducing tech debt and cloud costs, she is known for writing tooling and workflows that improve developer efficiency while maintaining strict compliance in complex regulated environments. Based in Longmont, CO, she pairs a systems-level view with a track record of production-grade open-source contributions to cloud infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
Github Skills (10)
terraformer10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
cloud-services10
terraform10
ibm-cloud10
terraform-provider10
apidoc9
api9
devops8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
IBM-Cloud/terraform-provider-ibm
May 2021 - Nov 2022
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/IBM-Cloud/ibm/latest/docs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 7 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Sarah contributed to the development of the IBM Terraform provider, focusing on enhancements to the Transit Gateway functionality. Their work included implementing support for new connection types like GRE tunnels and DLaaS, along with the addition of prefix filter capabilities. The user also addressed documentation issues and added support for Transit Gateway Route reports. These contributions demonstrate a focus on expanding the provider's features and improving its usability for managing IBM Cloud resources.
softlayeribm-cloudprovidersterraform-registrybluemix
sarah-ulmer/terraform-provider-ibm
Jun 2021 - Mar 2023
Terraform on IBM provider https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/ibm-cloud-provider-for-terraform?topic=ibm-cloud-provider-for-terraform-getting-started
Contributions:119 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 10 months
provideribm-cloudterraform-modulesibmterraform
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