Stephen Coe
Principal Engineer at Kaluza
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorStephen Coe is a Principal Engineer based in England with 14 years of experience building high-performing teams and resilient cloud platforms. He has progressed from hands-on engineering to tech lead and management roles at organisations including Kaluza and FIS, driving cloud-native architecture and delivery. Stephen combines deep infrastructure-as-code expertise with practical DevOps skills—evident from contributions to widely used Terraform modules such as enhancing Vault on AWS with DynamoDB backends. He excels at translating complex distributed-systems requirements into reliable, testable automation and platform solutions. Colleagues value his blend of technical depth and people leadership that helps teams move faster without sacrificing reliability. Outside of leadership, he remains a pragmatic coder who still dives into scripts, tests and CI to solve thorny operational problems.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
back-end-development10
terraform10
terraformer10
aws10
vault10
infrastructure-as-code10
backend10
devops10
amazon-web-services9
dynamodb9
php9
amazon-dynamodb9
oauth9
consul9
go8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-aws-vault
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
A Terraform Module for how to run Vault on AWS using Terraform and Packer
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Backend EngineerContributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 11 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Stephen focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the Terraform module, specifically integrating DynamoDB as a backend for Vault. They implemented support for the DynamoDB backend, modifying the `user-data-vault.sh` script and adding corresponding test files. Furthermore, they updated test configurations, and refactored tests to include relevant Consul configurations, demonstrating a hands-on approach to infrastructure-as-code with Terraform. Additionally, the user addressed code comments.
terraform-modulespackervaultterraformaws
stephencoe/countryside.visitbritain
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:119 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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