Steve Klabnik
Chief Product Officer at East River Source Control
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Klabnik is a seasoned software leader with 17 years of experience, now serving as Chief Product Officer at East River Source Control in Austin. He blends product leadership with deep hands-on engineering across systems, DevOps, and embedded tooling—work that spans Rust infrastructure (notably contributions to mdBook, Cargo, crates.io and rust-lang docs) and long-standing involvement in the Ruby ecosystem. Steve has repeatedly improved build and deployment pipelines, CI/CD automation, and developer experience for high-profile open-source projects, and has a knack for turning documentation and tooling gaps into robust, testable features. He pairs pragmatic backend engineering with front-end and CI refinements, and an uncommon mix of language-portability experience from Ruby to Rust and embedded systems. Educated in computer science at the University of Pittsburgh, he brings both technical depth and a builders-first product sensibility to developer-facing platforms.
17 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (124)
dependency-management10
apim10
programming-language10
benchmark10
cargo10
web-application10
testing10
bash10
background-worker10
integrations10
refactor10
ruby10
hyper10
build-automation10
rack10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
steveklabnik/request_store
Dec 2012 - Jan 2023
Per-request global storage for Rack.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 10 reviews, 80 commits in 10 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on the development of the `request_store` library for Rack applications. Their contributions centered on implementing and refining the core functionality of the library, including the initial store implementation using a Hash, delegation to `Thread.current`, and the creation of middleware for clearing the store before each request. They also added a Railtie to integrate with Rails applications and managed version updates.
ruby-on-railstest-kitchenorigamirailshotel-booking
rust-lang/rust-by-example
Dec 2014 - Nov 2021
Learn Rust with examples (Live code editor included)
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 574 commits, 474 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on improving the deployment process for the project. Their contributions include creating and modifying the deploy script (`deploy.sh`) to generate the website, fix build issues, and configure the deployment process. They addressed issues related to build failures, incorrect file handling, and generated pages. The user also managed and updated the deploy script by adding build steps, and ensuring the process works correctly within a CI/CD environment.
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