Stephen Walli
Adjunct Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Walli is a semi-retired technology strategist, educator, and open source steward with over 35 years’ experience building products, teams, and community-driven software ecosystems. He has served as a technical executive, founder, and principal program manager in Microsoft’s Azure Office of the CTO, and he helped shape governance and certification efforts across major foundations including the Eclipse Foundation, the Linux Foundation, and the Open Container Initiative. As an adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins, he designs hands-on courses that place students inside well-run open source projects and is currently exploring how AI-augmented tooling changes software engineering education. Known as a standards diplomat, he has deep roots in POSIX and IEEE work and a track record of turning open source collaboration into practical business and product outcomes. He combines pragmatic systems development experience with nonprofit and foundation governance, and still consults on open source strategy while blogging about the cultural and technical intersections of FOSS and business.
12 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Toronto
Github Skills (44)
docker10
ecosystem10
golang10
container9
moby9
assemble9
go9
dapr9
directive9
runc8
specification8
confidential7
oci-image7
artifacts7
autocomplete7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jhu-ospo-courses/JHU-EN.601.270
Aug 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:84 commits, 6 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 year 1 month
jhu-ospo-courses/JHU-EN.601.210
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:136 commits, 133 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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