Steve Martinelli
Product Management, Metal at Equinix
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Martinelli is a product and developer advocacy leader with 12 years of experience building and shepherding cloud and developer-facing products, currently leading Equinix Metal. He blends hands-on backend engineering—contributions to OpenStack Keystone and IBM projects—with product management and community-building roles at Shopify and IBM, translating developer feedback into shipped platform features. As a former Keystone PTL and OpenStack Technical Committee member, he has deep expertise in identity, federation, and large open-source project governance. He’s equally comfortable improving test automation and backend code quality (evidenced by contributions to python-keystoneclient and IBM’s Watson sample apps) as he is running developer programs and content. Based in Toronto, he brings a pragmatic balance of technical depth, developer empathy, and operational rigor that accelerates platform adoption. A less obvious strength: he repeatedly moves between hands-on engineering and leadership, keeping his product decisions grounded in real code and community needs.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B. ASc Computer Engineering, B. ASc Computer Engineering at York University
Stackoverflow
21reputation
59reached
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Github Skills (22)
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
testing10
functional-testing10
openstack10
api10
cloudant10
keystone10
test-automation10
apache9
ldap9
pytest9
documentation8
servicenow8
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/keystone
May 2016 - Feb 2017
OpenStack Identity (Keystone). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 commits, 2 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the OpenStack Keystone project. Their commits demonstrate a focus on enabling and testing LDAP functionality, modifying the code to support Python 3, and updating configuration settings. The user also addressed logging concerns, decreasing stacktrace spam, and contributed to documentation by updating deprecation messages. They also added APIs for revoking tokens.
vcenterkeystoneopendevidentityopenstack
Shopify/product-reviews-sample-app
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
A sample Shopify application that creates and stores product reviews for a store, written in Node.js
Contributions:8 reviews, 37 commits, 21 PRs in 3 months
product-reviewsnode-jsjavascriptpolarisnodejs
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