Steve Loeppky
Engineering Manager at Protocol Labs Network
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Loeppky is an engineering manager with 17 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud and distributed systems, including 14 years at Amazon and recent leadership across Protocol Labs and the Protocol Labs Network. He combines a bias for operational excellence with hands-on technical depth—comfortable in the nuts-and-bolts of cloud infrastructure, developer productivity tooling, and decentralized P2P projects such as IPFS (notably contributing to Kubo’s resource manager). Steve has hired and led large, distributed teams (directly and indirectly managing up to ~49 people), launched major services like SageMaker and SageMaker Studio, and driven multi-region operational readiness and cost-saving infrastructure changes. He thrives on simplifying and automating predictable release and incident processes, and on mentoring engineers through career development and performance systems. Now freelancing, he helps open-source and web3 organizations scale sustainably while insisting on doing things right. An unusual strength: he pairs deep programmatic coordination (hundreds of interviews, cross-team TPM work) with pragmatic code-level contributions in critical open-source tooling.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of Washington
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Github Skills (13)
ipfs10
go10
resource-management10
documentation9
textbox6
iframe6
symlink6
collections6
extjs6
rename6
javascript6
ant6
java6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
ipfs/kubo
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
An IPFS implementation in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:126 reviews, 43 commits, 46 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on improvements and documentation related to the resource manager within the IPFS Kubo project. They revised existing documentation, expanded its scope, and added a changelog entry. Their contributions involved code changes in `rcmgr_defaults.go`, `rcmgr.go`, and `rcmgr_logging.go`, showcasing a focus on configuring and managing resource limits. The user also made several iterations of changes, including a revert and re-application of some documentation improvements, indicating ongoing refinement of resource management documentation.
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BigLep/ExtJsWithDwr
May 2009 - Jan 2011
Contributions:30 commits in 1 year 7 months
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