Steve Moyer
Senior Backend Engineer (Infura) at ConsenSys
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarSteve Moyer is a seasoned backend engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and currently works as a Senior Backend Engineer at Infura/ConsenSys. He has deep expertise in Go and distributed systems, having led backend teams, mentored engineers, and driven Kubernetes and observability adoption at organizations like Omaze and Penn State. Steve contributes to prominent open-source projects such as JUnit 5—improving test filtering and stability—and has implemented core storage and repo-init features in the offline-first git-bug tracker, demonstrating both QA and low-level systems competency. His background spans architecture and hands-on development across networking, large-scale data platforms, and SaaS, including designing high-availability assurance systems managing tens of millions of devices. Based in Pennsylvania, he blends pragmatic engineering leadership with a preference for tooling and code generation to accelerate Go development and ensure reliable operational outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
5,693reputation
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126answers
4questions
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Github Skills (30)
git10
testing10
git-repository10
junit-jupiter10
java10
javas10
junit10
repo-management10
go10
management10
web-framework10
repository-pattern10
test-automation10
api-design9
bug-tracker9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
git-bug/git-bug
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git, with bridges
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 114 commits, 40 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on implementing features related to local storage configuration within the `git-bug/git-bug` repository. They introduced the ability to configure local storage, modifying core components related to repository initialization, including initialization for bare and non-bare git repositories. These changes involved modifications to the `GoGitRepo` struct and related methods, indicating a focus on the underlying git implementation within the bug tracking system. Additionally, the user cleaned up commented code and refactored the codebase to use a namespace instead of an application name, as well as ensuring the correct directory path for persistent storage.
version-controlgitdbtrackerrustbug-tracker
junit-team/junit5
May 2016 - Feb 2017
✅ The 5th major version of the programmer-friendly testing framework for Java and the JVM
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 15 PRs, 285 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on improving the JUnit 5 testing framework. They made changes to improve the framework's API, corrected a potential null pointer exception in the launcher, and added functionality for filtering tests by tags within the Surefire provider. Furthermore, they implemented and tested tag filtering capabilities in the Surefire provider, adding test cases and resolving inconsistencies to ensure accurate execution. These contributions enhance the framework's reliability, flexibility, and usability for developers.
test-automationjunit-jupitertesting-frameworkjunit-vintagetesting
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