Stephen Cuppett
Senior Director - Global Engineering, Hybrid Platforms
Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Cuppett is a senior engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently leading Global Engineering for Hybrid Platforms at Red Hat where he directs the OpenShift portfolio and managed services. He combines systems-level roots (Linux, z/OS testing) with deep cloud, containers, and SaaS expertise—driving product and SRE teams that delivered ROSA, ARO and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management. A hands-on manager who still contributes to code and framework maintenance (notably upgrading CakePHP examples on GitHub), he focuses on shaping resilient architectures, developer productivity, and team growth. His background includes founding and running a consultancy that built containerized AWS/EKS hosting and GitOps infrastructure, reflecting entrepreneurial operating experience alongside enterprise-scale leadership.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Accounting, Computer Science, B.S., Accounting, Computer Science at Penn State UniversitySouth Harrison High School
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Github Skills (4)
php10
cakephp10
configuration-management10
database-connectivity8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sclorg/cakephp-ex
Mar 2018 - Jul 2020
CakePHP Example
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 8 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Stephen upgraded the CakePHP framework version across multiple commits, updating the application to versions 3.5.14, 3.6, and 3.9.3, and 4.3.0. They also made corresponding changes to the `config/app.php` file in each upgrade, modifying settings related to error handling, database connections, and security salts. The contributions demonstrate a focus on framework maintenance and adapting the application to newer CakePHP versions.
phpcakephp
cuppett/php-fpm-operator
Oct 2020 - May 2022
Helm chart for deploying fedora-s2i-php built containers
Contributions:2 PRs, 40 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 7 months
containersdeployings2i-phpcharthelm
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