Stephen Augustus
Technical Architect, Office Of The CTO at OpenSSF
New York, New York, United States
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RockstarStephen Augustus is a technical architect in Bloomberg’s Office of the CTO with 11 years of hands-on experience building and governing open source ecosystems. He combines release engineering and DevOps expertise—especially around Kubernetes build, release and dependency management—with a track record of contributions to high-profile projects like kubernetes/kubernetes, kubectl, client-go and the OpenSSF Scorecard. A veteran community steward, he serves on multiple governance bodies (Kubernetes Steering, OpenSSF TAC and governing boards) and chairs SIG Release, blending technical rigor with policy and process. His work often focuses on making complex build systems reproducible and secure—automating dependency bumps, multi-arch builds, and CI/release tooling at scale. Based in New York, he’s also active as an investor and adviser to cloud-native startups, bringing product-minded perspective to infrastructure problems. Not obvious from titles: much of his influence comes from quietly maintaining the plumbing that keeps large open source projects reliable and releasable.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (54)
dependency-management10
go-modules10
kubernetes10
docker10
controller10
apidoc10
debian10
testing10
build-system10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
etcd10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/release
Jul 2018 - Dec 2022
Release infrastructure for Kubernetes and related components
Role in this project:
DevOps & Build/Release Engineer
DevOps & Build/Release EngineerContributions:14 releases, 172 reviews, 708 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on build and release infrastructure for Kubernetes. Their work involved cleaning up and updating build definitions for various Debian and Ubuntu versions, as well as updating the Dockerfile and build scripts for RPM packaging. The user also contributed to the CI/CD pipeline by updating scripts, and improving the build configuration to facilitate multi-architecture support. They ensured reproducible and efficient builds and made improvements to the tools used for building the code.
kubernetesrelease-infrastructureinfrastructure
kubernetes/enhancements
Apr 2018 - Apr 2022
Enhancements tracking repo for Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 reviews, 164 commits, 48 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the enhancements tracking repo for Kubernetes by adding and updating the KEP (Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal) metadata, specifically within the `api`, `pkg`, and `cmd` directories. Their work involved defining and updating data structures, such as the `Proposal` struct, and integrating them with existing command-line tools. They also updated the build, test, and verification scripts and fixed Shellcheck warnings, indicating a focus on the project's core functionality and tooling.
kubernetes-releasestrackingk8s-sig-architecturekubernetesenhancements
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