Stephen Leyva
Production Reliability Engineer at Jump Trading LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Leyva is a Production Reliability Engineer with eight years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and resilient Linux systems across finance, gaming, and cloud services. He has driven automation and reliability at organizations like Jump Trading and AWS Glacier, combining Python and Go tooling with careful production safety practices. At Blizzard and earlier startups he standardized Kubernetes logging, metrics, secrets, and admission controls, even authoring custom operators and contributing to notable open-source projects such as bank-vaults to improve Vault integration and deployment behavior. Based in Chicago, he excels at reducing lead times—from database provisioning to CI/CD bootstraps—while preserving operational robustness. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic engineer who blends deep systems expertise with a "head in the clouds" appetite for solving infrastructure and security challenges.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
C++ Nanodegree, Computer Science, C++ Nanodegree, Computer Science at UdacityDiploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at American School of Correspondence
Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
go10
vault10
kubernetes-pods10
operator10
security9
docker8
infrastructure-as-code8
charts8
dockers8
helm8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bank-vaults/bank-vaults
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
A Vault swiss-army knife: A CLI tool to init, unseal and configure Vault (auth methods, secret engines).
Role in this project:
DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Stephen's contributions focused on improving the operational aspects and backend configuration of the `bank-vaults` project. They modified the image pull policy within a mutating webhook, allowing users to specify caching behavior. Further contributions included enabling Vault as an unseal configuration source and incorporating Vault SDK, along with the addition of mounts to the bank-vaults sidecar and the configurer, including the propagation of env variables, demonstrating a focus on infrastructure, security, and deployment.
gcpvelerodcosinjectionhelm-chart
srleyva/NES-Emulator
May 2021 - Jun 2024
Contributions:56 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
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