Stefhen Hovland
DevOps Manager at Launch by NTT DATA
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolStefhen Hovland is a DevOps Manager based in Austin with 17 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure across enterprise and consumer environments. He brings deep AWS expertise from an EC2 systems engineer role at Amazon through cloud architecture and DevOps leadership at Volkswagen of America and Launch by NTT DATA. Known as a "DevOps / Cloud guy" on GitHub, Stefhen blends operational rigor—large-scale UNIX and clustered storage management at Eli Lilly—with automation and platform strategy to help teams move faster and more reliably. He has led on-call rotations and global support for critical services, and his background spans everything from storage and VCS/HA clusters to modern containerized, auto-scaling systems. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he often surfaces operational improvements rooted in long-term systems knowledge rather than short-term fixes.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Purdue University
Github Skills (189)
xapi10
aws-services10
nix10
probe10
windows10
xmake10
port-scanning10
traceroute10
haiku10
security10
lua10
libuv10
ack10
network-tools10
assetbundle10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
res0nat0r/exercism
Jan 2020 - Feb 2025
exercism.io solutions
Contributions:305 PRs, 802 pushes, 352 branches in 5 years 2 months
javascriptexercism
res0nat0r/projecteuler-solutions
Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:56 commits, 90 pushes, 47 branches in 2 years 1 month
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