Shella Stephens
Infrastructure Engineer at iqlusion
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShellla Stephens is an Infrastructure Engineer with 8 years of experience designing, deploying, and operating production infrastructure across data centers and hybrid cloud environments from Denver. Shella specializes in backend systems and reliability engineering, migrating monoliths to microservices while maintaining five nines uptime. At iqlusion she works on security-focused infrastructure and contributes to open-source blockchain tooling, notably implementing key management for the widely used cosmos/gravity-bridge project. Currently diving into Rust and cryptography, she brings a pragmatic blend of systems engineering and security curiosity. Her background spans international technical education and long-term, hands-on ownership of resilient distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
Kanazawa Institute of TechnologyRochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (11)
bip3210
command-line-interface10
key-management10
go10
cli10
command-line10
blockchain9
rust9
cosmos-sdk9
cryptography8
ethereum8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cosmos/gravity-bridge
May 2021 - May 2021
A CosmosSDK application for moving assets on and off of EVM based, POW chains
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Shella primarily worked on scaffolding and implementing key management features for the `gork` command-line tool within the `cosmos/gravity-bridge` repository. Their contributions involved creating commands for adding, importing, deleting, updating, listing, and showing keys, specifically for both Cosmos and Ethereum-based chains. They also integrated the abscissa-core framework and began incorporating libraries like `bip32` for mnemonic generation and key management within the orchestrator component.
cosmos-sdkevm
iqlusioninc/canister
Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
Deploy self-contained binaries from GCP Container Registry (gcr.io) as systemd service units
Contributions:43 reviews, 86 commits, 154 PRs in 2 years 4 months
container-registrygcpsystemd-service
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