Steve Lerner
Chief Information Officer
Bridgewater Township, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Lerner is a seasoned CIO and entrepreneur with over 30 years in IT and more than two decades focused on the life sciences, known for building scalable IT organizations at high-growth biopharma firms like Celgene and Incyte. He combines hands-on technical chops in DevOps, observability, cloud and CI/CD with strategic leadership—driving global IT transformations, M&A integrations, and enterprise cybersecurity practices. As founder of YakStack and an active advisor and angel investor, he brings product-focused startup experience alongside governance roles on angel and technology boards. Steve’s career began as a programmer at Bell Labs, and he uniquely pairs that deep engineering foundation with proven executive delivery across research, clinical, and commercial systems. Now semi-retired, he consults on strategic IT and systems solutions, often helping clients adopt modern observability and OpenTelemetry-driven practices.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Union College
Github Skills (41)
monitoring9
jaegertracing9
telemetry9
opentelemetry9
nginx-rtmp8
operator8
tricks8
signalfx8
opentelemetry-collector8
observability8
opentracing7
aac7
virtual-hosts7
vhosts6
instrumentation6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
stevelerner/devops-technique
Oct 2020 - Jan 2026
Tips and tricks for dev and ops
Contributions:6 PRs, 119 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
opssaltdevdevopstushare
stevelerner/splunkobservability
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
SignalFx projects
Contributions:20 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
signalfx
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