Stephen Askew
Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Bath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarStephen Askew is a Software Development Engineer based in Bath, UK with nine years of experience building secure, cloud-native infrastructure and back-end systems. At Microsoft since 2017, he focuses on automating Azure deployments and integrating enterprise-grade security—work reflected in contributions to the high-profile microsoft/AzureTRE project enabling Trusted Research Environments. He combines DevOps and back-end skills, adding features like Let's Encrypt automation, Key Vault integration, SSL for MySQL, and Azure AD authentication to improve both production reliability and developer experience. Comfortable scripting complex environment orchestration, he also enhances developer workflows through VS Code devcontainer support and autoreload improvements. Colleagues rely on him to turn security-sensitive requirements into repeatable deployment patterns that scale across teams and services.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (31)
docker10
python10
mysql10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
terraform10
terraformer10
automation10
gateway10
rest-api10
azure10
automations10
letsencrypt9
azuread9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/AzureTRE
May 2021 - Jul 2021
An accelerator to help organizations build Trusted Research Environments on Azure.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 8 commits, 18 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Stephen's primary contribution focused on configuring and automating infrastructure for the Azure Trusted Research Environment (TRE). This involved setting up SSL for the Application Gateway using Let's Encrypt certificates, automating the process of acquiring certificates, and integrating with Azure Key Vault. Furthermore, the user created scripts to retrieve core environment variables, and to automate the registration of an API application.
azure
moloch--/RootTheBox
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
A Game of Hackers (CTF Scoreboard & Game Manager)
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on enhancing the back-end functionality and infrastructure of the CTF platform. Their contributions included integrating SSL connections for MySQL databases, processing environment variables for Docker configurations, and implementing Azure AD authentication for user login. They also improved the development environment by adding VS Code dev container support, along with modifying the server's autoreload feature, directly impacting both back-end operations and the developer experience.
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