Steele Desmond is a founder and experienced software engineer with eight years building resilient, client-focused systems from national labs to enterprise cloud services. After R&D work at Sandia National Laboratories and a progressive engineering career at IBM—culminating as a Site Reliability Engineer—he founded Foglab in San Francisco to scale reliable solutions that deliver measurable impact. Steele combines deep systems and SRE expertise with a strong academic foundation from Georgia Tech and the University of New Mexico, enabling him to bridge research-grade engineering and production reliability. He is comfortable moving between code, infrastructure, and customer outcomes, and is particularly skilled at turning complex operational requirements into robust, maintainable platforms. A detail that sets him apart is his trajectory from tutoring peers in engineering fundamentals to leading SRE practices, reflecting both technical depth and a commitment to mentorship.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of New Mexico School of Engineering
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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