Stephen Mcquaid
Engineering Manager at Raft
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Mcquaid is an engineering manager and principal platform engineer with 12 years of experience building Kubernetes-first platforms and developer experience toolchains. Based in Sunnyvale, he has led teams at Angi and Raft to deliver custom operators, Crossplane integrations, and CI/CD/self-service tooling that embed DevSecOps and reliability from day one. Previously at Salesforce and Rackspace he helped invent platform-level solutions (including two patents) and shipped Kubernetes-as-a-Service for stateful workloads. Known for blending hands-on operator development with people leadership, he scales both infrastructure and engineering teams while prioritizing customer empathy and technical excellence. An early adopter of cloud-native patterns, he brings a pragmatic open-source sensibility honed at startups and large enterprises alike.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (200)
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linux10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
stevemcquaid/kubecon-2019-notes
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Notes from KubeCon 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 25 days
kubeconnoteskubernetes
stevemcquaid/ar-drone-keyboard
Apr 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 2 months
keyboard-controltrickkeyboardparrotudp
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