Stephen Herd
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Everbridge
British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Herd is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer based in British Columbia with 11 years of experience building and operating resilient cloud-native infrastructure. He has deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud, and virtualization (ESXi), combined with strong automation skills using Ansible, Helm, Puppet, Python and Bash to streamline deployments and incident response. Stephen has maintained high availability across diverse stacks—Linux, Windows, AIX, Solaris—and databases while leading DevOps implementations and release processes at companies like Everbridge and Amaya. He pairs traditional sysadmin breadth (Tomcat, Apache, HAProxy, MSSQL) with modern observability and CI/CD toolchains such as Prometheus, SignalFX, Jenkins and SonarQube. Known for translating operational pain points into repeatable automation, he also brings practical experience training teams and improving lifecycle tooling to accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Object Oriented Software Development, Software Development, Object Oriented Software Development, Software Development at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Github Skills (151)
python10
automation10
ssh10
vault10
ansible10
nexus10
homebridge10
api-gateway10
devops10
data-center9
monitoring9
network-configuration9
secrets9
charts9
golang9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
sharkannon/nexus-blobstore-google-cloud
Oct 2018 - Sep 2021
Nexus Repository Manager Blobstore backed by Google Cloud Storage
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
nexus-repository-managergcpflysystemapp-enginegoogle
sharkannon/LinkOverflow
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:50 pushes, 2 branches, 5 comments in 6 days
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