Stephen 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
Go client library for Elastic Cloud and Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)
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