Stephan Garland
Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolStephan Garland is a Senior Database Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience automating and hardening large-scale databases and cloud infrastructure. He has driven measurable results—overhauling a 100K+ QPS MySQL RDS to achieve a 40% query speedup and six-figure annual savings—and serves as an SME for MySQL and Postgres in fast-paced SaaS environments. Comfortable spanning DBRE and SRE responsibilities, he has built benchmarking and migration tooling, delivered developer training (MySQL and Kubernetes), and led zero-downtime Terraform and data-migration projects. A former Navy reactor operator and instructor, Stephan brings disciplined systems thinking, operational rigor, and a penchant for automation (and foreign keys) to every problem. He’s an active open-source contributor who improves usability in security tooling, reflecting his focus on practical, user-friendly automation.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics Maintenance and Repair, Electronics Maintenance and Repair at Electronics Technician Maintenance SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Nuclear Engineering Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Nuclear Engineering Technology at Excelsior UniversityNuclear Power, Nuclear Power at Naval Nuclear Power Training CommandMaster of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinQuality Assurance, Quality Assurance at Quality Assurance Inspector
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Github Skills (16)
argparse10
python10
log-analysis10
security9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
debug8
debugging8
chaining6
excel-formula6
bash6
dictionary6
excel6
bitwise-operators6
bit-manipulation6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Neo23x0/log4shell-detector
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Detector for Log4Shell exploitation attempts
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Stephan primarily contributed to improving the functionality and usability of the log4shell-detector. They refactored the code to use argparse groups and removed sys dependencies. Further modifications included changes to output formatting to show levels, and the addition of a summary option. These changes suggest a focus on improving the detector's command-line interface and overall user experience.
log4shellpowershellexploitationdetector
stephanGarland/intro-to-x
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:27 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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