Stephen Schlie
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Veeam Software
Concord, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarStephen Schlie is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of DevOps experience and a deep focus on Kubernetes since 2016, including early contributions to Project Calico's CNI and core libraries. He blends hands-on engineering (Go, Terraform, Helm, CI/CD) with SRE leadership across cloud and on-prem environments, having driven cost savings, cluster upgrades, and FIPS/FedRAMP efforts in production. Stephen excels under pressure—restoring services during outages—while prioritizing prevention, automation, and knowledge sharing through pairing and developer enablement. His open-source work on Calico demonstrates an attention to correctness and race-condition fixes, and he brings practical cost and compliance sensibilities to platform design. Based in Concord, CA, he treats infrastructure as both profession and hobby, continuously iterating on tooling to keep deployments efficient and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
docker10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
testing10
kubernetes-networking10
cni10
bash10
dockers10
networking10
cicd10
automation10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
projectcalico/cni-plugin
Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
Calico CNI plugin
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 26 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on improving the installation and testing of the CNI plugin. Their contributions included adding and modifying scripts for installing CNI binaries, including 3rd party ones, making the installation process more robust and smarter. They also added and improved tests for the installation script and corrected the cleanup function for tests. In addition, they fixed an issue with the `calico-ipam` to use the correct nodename.
calicocnicalico-cnicni-plugin
projectcalico/libcalico-go
Dec 2016 - Dec 2017
Golang Calico library functions: https://www.projectcalico.org
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 34 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the backend of the `libcalico-go` library, focusing on core functionality and data store interactions. They implemented and modified code related to label validation, selector tokenizing, and Kubernetes backend integration, including adding Node calls to the K8s backend. Further contributions include changes to host config and the implementation of update and apply calls for the Node resource within the Kubernetes datastore. These changes suggest a focus on data management and integration with Kubernetes.
golangcalico
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