Steve Kong
Sr. Director, DevOps - Platform Engineering
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Kong is a seasoned DevOps and platform engineering leader with 12+ years building and operating large-scale, highly available systems across Yahoo, LinkedIn, and Moody's. He combines deep hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure, SRE practices, telemetry and big data pipelines with a track record of growing and mentoring teams through major platform transitions. At Yahoo he ran massive Splunk and Hadoop deployments for mobile analytics; at LinkedIn he led SRE teams focused on CDN and traffic engineering, and he now directs cloud platform engineering at Moody’s. Based in San Jose, he pairs practical automation skills (Ansible, Terraform, SaltStack) and observability know-how with a pragmatic, people-first management style. Outside work he’s a runner, dad and self-described snarky troublemaker—reflecting a curious, iterative approach to both engineering and life.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at San José State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology at University of Phoenix
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (25)
activitystreams10
social-media10
mastodon-app9
mastodon-api9
steam8
mastodon8
federation8
golang8
diaspora7
pixelfed7
decentralization7
activitypub7
federated7
wine7
epic6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ultramookie/mypage
Nov 2013 - Dec 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes in 3 years 1 month
ultramookie/trblcorp-uptime
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:103 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 7 days
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