Steve Del Fante
Retired Instructional Designer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
👤
SeniorSteve Del Fante is a seasoned instructional designer with 27+ years of experience crafting technical learning for software and telecom organizations. He spent a decade-plus shaping developer and product training at Progress Chef and earlier held senior roles at T-Mobile, Juniper Networks, and Adobe, blending deep domain knowledge with practical curriculum design. Known for translating complex telecom and software concepts into clear, deployable learning experiences, he has a track record of enabling engineering teams and customers to adopt new tools and platforms. Based in Seattle, he transitioned to retirement in 2024 after a career focused on scalable, industry-aligned training solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic instructional strategist who pairs technical fluency with a publisher’s attention to clarity and usability.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (48)
spec10
testing10
audit10
tdd10
security9
inspec9
devops9
automation9
scale9
auditing9
infrastructure9
compliance9
chef-infra8
ansible8
kubernetes7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chef-training/automate-workflow-json-templates
Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 1 month
json-templatesstoringtrainingcftjson
chef-training/chef-essentials
Aug 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:41 PRs, 250 pushes, 36 branches in 9 months
chef
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.