Steve Kuznetsov
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Kuznetsov is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, developer tooling, and resilient CI/CD systems, currently at Microsoft after a long tenure at Red Hat. He specializes in stitching small services into dependable platforms and has driven reliability and performance work across OpenShift, Kubernetes, and large-scale test infra like Prow and presubmit systems. Steve is a pragmatic back-end and DevOps engineer who contributes to high-profile open-source projects (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible) with hands-on fixes in Go, test automation, and build tooling. He has led platform teams, delivered operator and HyperShift features for managed OpenShift, and even published practical findings on storage and multi-tenant control planes. Known for improving developer experience through better tooling and observability, he combines production support with thoughtful automation that prevents flakiness in CI. Based in Salt Lake City, he pairs an engineering degree from Duke with a track record of subtle but impactful infrastructure improvements—like cleaning up headless test processes and wrapping webhook errors for clearer debugging.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Engineer’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science at Duke University
Github Skills (53)
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
build-system10
web-deploy10
template-engine10
go-testing10
etcd10
dockers10
cicd10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/release
Mar 2017 - Nov 2022
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:550 reviews, 1973 commits, 1709 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on automating and improving the CI/CD pipeline for the OpenShift release tooling, specifically targeting the HyperShift component. They added Prometheus dumping to the e2e tests and implemented a short cert rotation scale within the install process to ensure the CI system would catch issues. They also modified the test execution logic, including modifying and exposing test commands to optimize test processes, running tests in the background, and ensuring the use of correct targets.
continuous-deploymentkubernetesopenshifttooling
kcp-dev/kcp
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes-like control planes for form-factors and use-cases beyond Kubernetes and container workloads.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1161 reviews, 447 commits, 288 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Steve focused on refactoring the codebase by using an automated tool to ensure proper import order and making the code more readable. They also added and optimized functionalities for cluster workspace creation. The user's work included adding a sharding layer with a default local configuration for routing cluster-less requests and enhancing tests. The contributions demonstrate an understanding of the project's core features and infrastructure by adding CI/CD capabilities and improving the project's build dependencies.
workloadsclusterskcpcontrol-planek8s
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