Steve Arch
Staff Software Engineer at Personio
Greater Southampton Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Arch is a Staff Software Engineer and tech lead with over fifteen years of experience delivering well-structured application and systems integrations across finance, telecoms, and cloud-native platforms. He has progressed from embedded and simulation work to senior architecture roles at CloudBees and now Personio, driving CI/CD and Kubernetes-focused tooling and secure deployment practices. A hands-on contributor to Jenkins X, he improved deployment safety and Helm/build configurations to prevent accidental cluster uninstalls and harden Kubernetes interactions. Cambridge-trained in mathematics and computer science, he combines rigorous analytical thinking with pragmatic engineering and mentorship. Outside of work he brews his own beer, reflecting a practical, detail-oriented approach that also surfaces in his code quality and system design.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Mathematics, MA, Mathematics at University of CambridgeThe British School of Brussels
French, German
Github Skills (11)
jenkins10
kubernetes10
jenkins-ci10
go10
helm10
devops10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
golang9
gitops9
tekton8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
jenkins-x/jx
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
Jenkins X provides automated CI+CD for Kubernetes with Preview Environments on Pull Requests using Cloud Native pipelines from Tekton
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:162 commits, 53 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on improving the Jenkins X deployment process and security by addressing potential vulnerabilities and adding safeguards. Their contributions included preventing accidental uninstalls from the wrong Kubernetes cluster and extracting interfaces for enhanced Kubernetes interactions. Additionally, the user implemented changes to improve Helm-related operations and the configuration of the build process.
tektonopenshiftrolloutcontinuous-integrationjenkins
agentgonzo/bamboohr-google-calendar-sync
Feb 2018 - Jun 2022
Application for syncing your personal calendar between BambooHR and Google Calendars
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 4 years 4 months
bamboohrsyncingcalendarscalendar
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