Steve Lum
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
San Bruno, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Lum is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in highly available infrastructure and complex distributed systems, currently building reliability at Apple after senior SRE roles at Splunk and Sift Science. With over 15 years of hands-on experience in Linux administration, network engineering, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), he designs and automates robust deployments using Terraform, SaltStack, Chef, Ansible, and Packer. He pairs strong troubleshooting and debugging instincts with pragmatic tooling—authoring Python and shell utilities—to harden systems and streamline CI/CD workflows. A proven technical mentor and project lead, Steve favors "work smarter, not harder" automation that reduces toil and improves operational resilience. Based in San Bruno, CA, he blends enterprise-scale reliability practices with startup agility, often surfacing subtle infrastructure risks before they impact users.
6 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityCapuchino High School
Github Skills (45)
monitoring10
signalfx10
opentracing10
instrumentation10
collector10
java10
zipkin10
jaegertracing10
opentelemetry10
telemetry10
javascript9
observability9
python9
opentelemetry-collector9
distributed-tracing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
signalfx/otelworkshop
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:127 commits, 1 PR, 87 pushes in 2 months
signalfx/apmworkshop
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 review, 1054 commits, 149 PRs in 11 months
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