Steve Dake
Principal Engineer And Technical Director Distributed Inferencing (vllmd) at Neural Magic
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Dake is a seasoned technologist and open-source leader with 21 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native and distributed systems from kernel-level clustering to orchestration and service mesh. Currently leading engineering at Neural Magic and formerly co-founder/CTO of Computelify, he blends hands-on low-level C and systems work (founder and heavy contributor to Corosync) with productization of complex cloud software like OpenStack Heat, Kolla and Magnum. He has driven large cross-company efforts at IBM, Cisco, NetApp and VMware, coordinating hundreds of contributors and shipping features used in production by multiple vendors. Steve’s strengths are in technical leadership, shipping reliable infrastructure, and turning research-grade ideas into operational products—he also architects subtle protocol and synchronization fixes that prevent production crashes. Based in Scottsdale, AZ, he pairs founder-level curiosity with a track record of stewarding major open-source projects and mentoring the next wave of maintainers.
21 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Engineering, ENGINEERING, Computer Science Engineering, ENGINEERING at Northern Arizona University
English
Stackoverflow
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kubernetes
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Github Skills (78)
python10
multithreading10
testing10
bash10
c1110
security10
c1710
automation10
automation-testing10
clustering10
system-programming10
memory-management10
ipc10
dockers10
data-storage10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
corosync/corosync
Jun 2005 - Nov 2012
The Corosync Cluster Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1424 commits, 14 comments, 1 issue in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Steve appears to be involved in core development related to the Corosync Cluster Engine, as evidenced by their work on the low-level code. They focused on low-level socket manipulation, thread management and API functions for inter-process communication, retransmissions, and the token passing mechanism within the UDPU and possibly a related IBAL library. Their commits include bug fixes and improvements related to the membership and synchronization algorithms of the totem system, with changes addressing several issues including a crash scenario and problems with the ordering of membership events.
corosync
openstack/heat
Mar 2012 - Apr 2014
OpenStack Orchestration (Heat). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:217 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the OpenStack Heat project, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to the core orchestration functionality. Their work included updating documentation, fixing spelling errors, and improving the reliability of the template validation process. The user also implemented features related to instance creation and management, converting AWS instance types to OpenStack flavors and adding support for cloud-init user data injection. The user was instrumental in the evolution of core infrastructure and integration.
openstack
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