Steve Lewis
Software Engineering Manager at Cylinder
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Lewis is a seasoned software engineering manager in Portland with 11+ years of leadership experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and observability practices. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps craft—contributing to notable OpenStack projects like openstacksdk, glance, and openstack-ansible—with strong people management, coaching, and cross-functional program delivery. At companies from Rackspace to Honeycomb and Cylinder he’s led zero-downtime migrations, HITRUST-ready security efforts, and data-driven product experiments while reducing operational friction for engineers. Known for raising engineering standards, hiring for diversity, and founding DEI initiatives, he balances technical depth with empathetic leadership. A self-described “human” and occasional maker, he prefers remote roles and brings a curious, principled approach to solving complex distributed-architecture challenges.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Science at University of Oregon
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Github Skills (34)
openstack-sdk10
api-rest10
python10
api-design10
scripting10
restful-api10
testing10
resource-management10
script10
openstack10
ansible10
sh10
rest-api10
ansible-galaxy10
shell10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/openstack-ansible
Feb 2015 - Nov 2016
Ansible playbooks for deploying OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:62 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the OpenStack-Ansible project by modifying and enhancing the infrastructure configuration and deployment scripts. They implemented and enabled various service-specific configurations, including fatal deprecation warnings for multiple OpenStack services. Furthermore, the user made changes to the LXC bridge network configuration and updated the Horizon configuration. The user also worked on improving the deployment process by incorporating proxy support for pip installs and managing RabbitMQ cluster partitioning.
ansibleopenstack
openstack/glance
Nov 2014 - Apr 2017
OpenStack Image Management (Glance). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Steve contributed to the OpenStack Glance project by addressing various issues related to testing and infrastructure. They removed a test dependency on curl, eliminated shell parameters from subprocesses in tests, and rewrote SSL tests to ensure valid certificates. Additionally, the user implemented support for new v2 API image filters and replaced master/slave terminology with source/target in replication configurations. These changes indicate a focus on improving testing, API functionality, and system configurations.
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