Summary
Steve Downey is a Senior Technology Architect with over three decades of hands-on experience solving complex healthcare data center and infrastructure challenges. He blends deep expertise in networking, Windows and virtualization stacks, and compliance-driven automation—having built mass-deployment and STIG/NIST remediation tools that moved federal hosting to compliant states. A pragmatic DevOps leader, he has led configuration management and CI/CD initiatives using Chef, Terraform, InSpec, GitHub and Jenkins, and authored numerous operational scripts and orchestration utilities in Ruby, PowerShell and Perl. His career uniquely spans low-level network engineering to high-level platform automation, delivering multi-million-dollar operational savings through provisioning and workflow improvements. Known for meticulous risk assessment and cross-team training, he often turns ad hoc operational gaps into repeatable, auditable tooling. Based in West Chester, PA, he brings rare continuity across legacy and cloud-era systems that helps healthcare organizations modernize reliably.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
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