Stephen Scaffidi
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Cloudera
Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Scaffidi is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 18 years of experience designing, operating, and migrating large-scale distributed systems for companies like Cloudera, Chewy, HERE Technologies, and TripAdvisor. He specializes in bridging the traditional gaps between development and operations through pragmatic engineering, strong IaC practices (Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes), and observability-driven cost and reliability improvements. Notable achievements include leading an on-prem to AWS migration, architecting a multi-petabyte data warehouse, and delivering a vendor-constrained high-availability cloud migration that others had been unable to complete. Stephen is known for rapid technology ramp-up, mentoring and onboarding SREs across distributed teams, and translating complex technical trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders. He combines practical security and compliance experience (ISO-9001, SOC2, SOX) with a track record of reducing cloud spend and operational toil. Based in Wakefield, MA, he brings a creative, pragmatic mindset that consistently turns messy legacy environments into robust, auditable platforms.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
UMass Lowell
English
Stackoverflow
949reputation
264kreached
14answers
5questions
Github Skills (73)
detectors10
nodes10
facter9
duckduckgo9
proxies9
security9
perl9
refresh9
reload9
k8s9
autoscaling9
kubernetes9
cartesian-product9
puppet8
tuples8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hercynium/Set-CartesianProduct-Lazy
Jun 2012 - Jun 2019
Lazily calculate the tuples of a cartesian product of sets
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 7 years 1 month
calculatecartesiantuplescartesian-product
hercynium/istio-fortsa
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Όρτσα τα πανιά! Keep Istio's Data-Plane Proxies Up-To-Date Automatically
Contributions:42 releases, 2 reviews, 37 PRs in 6 months
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