Stephen Oberther
Sterling, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Oberther is an experienced infrastructure and observability engineer with 11 years in senior roles driving reliability and cost optimization at scale, most recently shaping platform and Kubernetes adoption at Zendesk. He blends hands-on systems work—from DNS and CI to large-scale Kubernetes deployments—with a pragmatic pushback mindset that prioritizes measurable cost and performance gains. His background spans high-availability hosting and operations at Verisign, AOL, and enterprise managed services, giving him deep expertise in heterogeneous, geographically distributed systems. A Florida State University MS/BS computer science alumnus, he’s comfortable leading teams and doing the day-to-day engineering that “keeps the lights on” while testing new technologies to shave infrastructure spend.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Florida State University
Github Skills (70)
docker-machine9
multiarch9
zeebe9
monitors9
golang8
parser8
programming-language8
controller8
nginx8
openflow8
vector8
interpreter7
pipeline7
go7
router7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
smo921/sis-api
Oct 2015 - Feb 2020
Service Information System REST API
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
apirestsystem-informationrest-apijava
smo921/kennel
Oct 2018 - May 2024
Keep datadog monitors/dashboards/etc in version control, avoid chaotic management via UI
Contributions:27 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 8 months
monitorsversion-controlkeepdashboardsavoid
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