Stephen Schmidt
Platform Engineer
Greater Philadelphia United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Schmidt is a Platform Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently driving platform reliability at PostHog after a multi-year tenure leading Cloud Tooling SRE efforts at Elastic. He has deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, SRE practices, and automation from roles at Elastic, Slalom, Instructure, and major product companies like Under Armour and Hudl. Stephen blends operational rigor with developer-friendly tooling, shipping scalable systems that reduce toil and accelerate cloud adoption. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he pairs an Information Security and Forensics background from RIT with practical systems engineering, which informs a pragmatic approach to reliability and security. Colleagues know him for translating complex infrastructure needs into repeatable, automated platforms that empower teams to move faster.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Information Security and Forensics, Bachelor's Degree, Information Security and Forensics at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (165)
selenium-server10
ess10
high-availability10
command-line-interface10
terraform10
elasticsearch10
cloud-control10
visualizations10
k8s10
bare-metal10
webdriver10
kubernetes-cluster10
kustomize10
continuous-delivery10
helm10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Z3r0Sum/spin_cli
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 11 months
apirestfulspinnakerrestful-apicli
Z3r0Sum/cloud-sdk-go
Dec 2021 - Oct 2023
Go client library for Elastic Cloud and Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)
Contributions:1 push, 4 branches in 1 year 10 months
golangenterpriseclient-libraryelasticgo-client
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