Stephen Rust
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Rust is a tech lead and systems engineer with two decades of production software experience, currently guiding cloud-native workload and runtime efforts at CNCF and Akamai (Linode). He specializes in storage I/O, virtualization, OS-level systems programming and distributed applications, with a track record of building storage stacks, volume managers, CSI drivers and performance-driven subsystems from the kernel to cloud. Stephen moves quickly from tactical fixes to comprehensive architecture, exemplified by contributions to the high-profile Moby project addressing container volume and API robustness. A pragmatic leader and collaborator, he thrives in close teams solving complex, performance-sensitive problems and has repeatedly bridged open source community work with customer-facing product delivery.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering at Valparaiso University
Github Skills (13)
container10
docker10
go10
driver10
volumes10
backend10
back-end-development10
dockers10
testing10
apidoc9
api9
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
moby/moby
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 64 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Stephen contributed to the Moby project by addressing various issues related to container management and volume drivers. They fixed a nil pointer dereference in the API by checking for nil `HostConfig` objects. Furthermore, the user implemented several improvements to volume driver functionality, including addressing a blocking issue and enabling external volume drivers to handle anonymous volumes and copy data. Their work involved modifying core daemon components and integration tests within the Docker ecosystem.
containerscollaborative-projectgolangcontainer-ecosystemdocker
srust/moby
Jul 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:39 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 5 months
containerscontainer-enginedocker
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