Stephen Varela
Senior Software Engineer I at DigitalOcean
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Varela is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building backend systems, currently focused on network and infrastructure features at DigitalOcean. He has strong Ruby on Rails roots complemented by hands-on work in Go, gRPC, Kafka and Kubernetes for event-driven microservices, and has contributed to the popular digitalocean/godo Go client by enhancing load balancer, firewall and monitoring capabilities. His background as an FPGA engineer and systems test developer gives him a rare hardware-to-cloud perspective that helps when triaging production issues and designing reliable, observable services. Stephen has led small epics end-to-end—scoping, implementing, testing and operating features—and regularly improves monitoring, test coverage and operational processes. Based in Toronto, he blends pragmatic backend development with infrastructure-level thinking and a track record of mentoring and operational excellence.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of TorontoWeb Development Immersive Full Stack Web Development, Web Development Immersive Full Stack Web Development at General Assembly Canada
Github Skills (6)
golang10
digitalocean10
load-balancing10
go10
api10
apidoc10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
digitalocean/godo
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
DigitalOcean Go API client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the `godo` repository, which is a Go API client for DigitalOcean. Their work focused on enhancing the load balancer functionality, as demonstrated by adding the `project_id` field and supporting HTTP idle timeout settings. Furthermore, the user added features to include firewall configurations for load balancers by adding allow and deny rules. The commits also included the addition of monitoring endpoints for HTTP alerts related to load balancers.
golangapiapi-clientgo-apiapi-client-go
StephenVarela/openapi
Nov 2022 - Dec 2024
The OpenAPI v3 specification for DigitalOcean's public API.
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
apispecificationopenapi3public-apiopenapi
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