Steve Klassen
Senior Backend Software Engineer at Automotus
Kuna, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Klassen is a Senior Backend Software Engineer with 10+ years building integrations and automation that remove friction for both developers and customers. He’s driven by an impact-first mindset—rewriting APIs, CLIs, and tooling to accelerate deployments (one change increased integration speed 300%) and simplify partner onboarding. Steve has deep experience across Go, C#, Python, and PowerShell, contributing to notable projects like the SolarWinds Orion SDK while championing best practices such as PEP8 and maintainable samples. A hands-on mentor and team builder, he regularly leads training on SQL and developer experience improvements that level up entire teams. Based in Kuna, Idaho, he’s also a passionate teacher and polyglot collector who brings pragmatic empathy to every technical decision.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Aliso Niguel High School
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (12)
powershell10
python10
rest-api9
api9
apim9
json7
crontask6
cron6
go6
linux6
perl6
regex6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
solarwinds/OrionSDK
Jan 2016 - Mar 2020
SDK for the SolarWinds Orion platform, including tools, documentation, and samples in PowerShell, C#, Go, Perl, and Java.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 19 PRs, 75 comments in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the SolarWinds Orion SDK by adding, modifying, and refactoring sample scripts, primarily in PowerShell and Python, to interact with the Orion platform's APIs. They focused on creating, updating, and deleting nodes, interfaces, and custom properties. The user's contributions included re-organizing and implementing sample code to align with best practices such as PEP8 and code formatting.
solarwindspowershellsdkorioncsharp
mrxinu/gosolar
May 2017 - Jan 2020
A SolarWinds client written in Go.
Contributions:53 commits, 5 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 8 months
golangsolarwindsgo
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