Steve Jenkins
Chief Executive Officer at University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Jenkins is a veteran entrepreneur and CEO with 14+ years of hands-on experience building and exiting internet businesses, including founding Windows95.com/WinFiles and Virtual Servers and completing multimillion-dollar sales to CNET and Micron. He blends operational leadership with deep product and marketing instincts—bootstrapping communities and gaming networks to rapid profitability and scaling teams into the thousands. An active open-source and Linux maintainer, he contributes packaging and DevOps scripts (notably utilities for Ubiquiti UniFi admins) and submits patches upstream to improve mail/auth projects like OpenDKIM and OpenDMARC. Outside tech he coaches CrossFit, chairs a philanthropic foundation focused on youth micro-entrepreneurship, and mentors university entrepreneurship programs, reflecting a pragmatic, hands-on approach to developing people as well as companies. Colleagues know him for negotiating M&A deals, low-budget/high-impact growth tactics, and a “do whatever it takes” work ethic that prefers solving problems over assigning blame.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
General Education, General Education at Mount Hood Community CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Parkrose High SchoolBrigham Young University-IdahoBA, French / Economics / Statistics, BA, French / Economics / Statistics at Brigham Young University
English, French, Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
sh10
automation10
linux10
bash10
script10
automations10
ubi10
shell10
scripting10
devops9
networking8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
stevejenkins/unifi-linux-utils
Jun 2016 - Aug 2019
Helpful Linux / Unix scripts for admins of Ubiquiti (UBNT) UniFi wireless products
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:108 commits, 26 PRs, 99 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the project by creating and modifying scripts related to the management and upgrade of Ubiquiti UniFi products. They developed scripts to facilitate UniFi controller upgrades, including automated backup and restore procedures. Additionally, the user created a script for rebooting UniFi access points remotely. The user also updated existing scripts with new features and configuration options.
ubntunixunix-scriptshyper-vlinux
stevejenkins/pihole-cloudsync
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
Syncs blocklists, blacklists, and whitelists across multiple Pi-holes using a private GitHub repo
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 70 commits in 1 year 5 months
holesblacklistsdnsmasqblocklistspi-hole
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