Steve Nay
Owner, Tax Professional, Enrolled Agent at Daybreak Tax
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Nay is a multidisciplinary professional blending 14 years of software engineering experience with current practice as an Enrolled Agent and owner of a small tax firm in Austin, Texas. He has built distributed systems and full-stack applications at scale, including primary stewardship of the popular aws-node-termination-handler open-source project while at AWS, and has taught Amazon’s internal software development methodology. Steve pairs hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—improving logging, error handling, and build pipelines—with cybersecurity engineering work supporting patent litigation. As a tax practitioner he leverages technical rigor to deliver tax planning, compliance, and IRS representation for individuals and small service businesses. His background in systems design, observability, and cross-border ecommerce integrations gives him a rare combination of production-grade engineering discipline and practical financial advisory skills.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
docker10
dockers10
go10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
cicd9
logging8
error-handling8
crypto7
appstore6
redirect6
php6
iphone6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-node-termination-handler
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Gracefully handle EC2 instance shutdown within Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 174 reviews, 28 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on enhancing the application's functionality and improving the developer experience. This included adding features such as improved logging and error handling within the core application logic and updating the build process to support modern build tools like `docker buildx`. They also contributed to testing and dependency upgrades, ensuring the project's stability and incorporating the latest security patches. Furthermore, the user made changes to the project's automated event monitoring system for AWS infrastructure.
golangmaintenance-eventsec2shutdownspot-instances
awslabs/aws-simple-ec2-cli
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
A CLI tool that simplifies the process of launching, connecting and terminating an EC2 instance.
Contributions:4 releases, 35 reviews, 27 commits in 9 months
ecsaws-cliec2route53ec2-instances
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