Stephen Lowrie
Senior Software Engineer at Roku Inc.
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarStephen Lowrie is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Antonio with a decade of experience building reliable, production-focused systems. At Roku he applies deep backend and automation skills, notably contributing to foundational open-source projects like coreos-assembler and ignition where he improved build/test infrastructure, PXE install scenarios, LUKS/Clevis support, and robust error handling for provisioning workflows. He combines DevOps and backend development fluency to bridge build systems, testing, and secure first-boot configuration, which makes him effective on platform and infrastructure teams. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic bug fixes and thoughtful extensions that make complex deployment paths more testable and secure.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
build-system10
go10
luks10
build-automation10
cicd10
testing10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
bash9
ipxe8
docker8
system-administration8
security8
dockers8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
coreos/ignition
Jun 2017 - Apr 2021
First boot installer and configuration tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 107 reviews, 101 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality of the `coreos/ignition` repository. Their contributions included modifying the base configuration to handle different root parameters, updating file rendering, and adding new functions for getting user and group IDs. Furthermore, they addressed bug fixes to ensure correct error handling for directory, link, and file creation. The user also added code to support LUKS volumes and integrating with the Clevis system for secure device access.
installerfedoracoreos
coreos/coreos-assembler
Aug 2018 - Oct 2020
Tooling container to assemble CoreOS-like systems
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:39 reviews, 33 commits, 31 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the repository by modifying build and test infrastructure. They switched to upstream mantle in a build script, indicating an understanding of build processes. The user also introduced a new scenario and modified existing ones for testing PXE installation, enhancing the testing capabilities for the coreos-assembler project. The user added a new option to create additional disk devices. Additionally, they updated the kola resource test to use a different bucket, and added the ability to tag tests with a list of strings.
containerscoreosbuildsystemdockerassemble
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