Silas Strawn
Senior Software Engineer at Current
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSilas Strawn is a senior software engineer with seven years of experience building backend and DevOps tooling for cloud and fintech environments. A UT Austin ECE graduate with deep Python, Java, and Scala skills, he helped drive a ~100X latency reduction for Azure App Service certificate syncing while leading Azure CLI development used by millions of monthly users. He has hands-on startup experience ingesting large datasets and automating workflows, and at Goldman Sachs he implemented analytics to streamline data lake tuning that saved hundreds of hours monthly. His open-source contributions to high-profile Azure repositories include production features for App Service, static web apps, and private registry/AKS support, reflecting a knack for bridging product needs and developer tooling. Based in New York, Silas combines systems-level performance optimization with practical API and data engineering experience, and he often focuses on automations that shrink operational toil.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) - Focus in Software Engineering, 3.86, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) - Focus in Software Engineering, 3.86 at Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at AustinEngineering Science and Computer Science, 3.80, Engineering Science and Computer Science, 3.80 at Trinity University
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Github Skills (19)
git10
kubernetes10
docker10
cloud-computing10
python10
back-end-development10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
azure-cli10
azure-app-service10
kubernetes-pods10
azure10
cicd9
devops9
apidoc8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-cli
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Azure Command-Line Interface
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:83 reviews, 47 commits, 66 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Silas primarily focused on improving the Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI), adding features for deploying and managing web applications and function apps within Azure. They added new parameters to support VNet integration and zone redundancy during creation. The user also made changes to the static web app functionality for integrating with Azure Dev Ops and providing enterprise edge features. The user also refactored existing commands and updated tests to reflect the changes in the underlying code.
azurecommand-line-interfaceazure-clicloud
Azure/azure-cli-extensions
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
Public Repository for Extensions of Azure CLI.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:57 reviews, 25 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Silas primarily contributed to the `appservice-kube` extension for the Azure CLI. Their work involved implementing features like support for private registry images and BYO AKS clusters. They also fixed bugs related to SSL binding, updated the setup file, and made improvements. Additionally, the user worked on integrating Static Webapp Azure Frontdoor, adding enterprise-edge extension, and registering Microsoft.CDN provider automatically.
azure-cliazure-cli-extension
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