Steve Saliman
Principal Software Architect at Stream Data Centers
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Saliman is a Principal Software Architect with over two decades in IT and 13 years focused on software engineering, design, and team leadership based in Denver. He blends deep hands‑on expertise—from Unix/Linux administration and DBAs to Java/Spring backend development and cloud-native architectures—with a pragmatic eye for operational reliability and maintainability. At Vantage he designed a configurable, enterprise billing system and a Kafka-based telemetry platform running in Azure Kubernetes, improving accuracy and scalability across global data centers. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core tooling like Liquibase and Cobertura and contributed practical fixes to Puppet MySQL modules, reflecting a focus on backend robustness and developer ergonomics. Steve prioritizes mentoring and developer enablement, creating libraries and patterns that let less-experienced engineers deliver production-quality software without needing deep infra knowledge. He has a track record of reducing complexity and operational cost—migrating teams to repeatable, testable builds and cloud deployments while enforcing industry best practices.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (36)
puppeteer10
puppet10
mysql10
database-administration10
java10
javas10
cobertura10
python-modules10
sql10
code-coverage10
refactoring10
mariadb9
testing9
admin9
bash9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cobertura/cobertura
Nov 2013 - Aug 2014
Cobertura
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Steve focused on improving the Cobertura code coverage tool. Their contributions included creating methods that do not use System.exit, creating wrapper classes for backward compatibility, and refactoring the main methods to use helper methods and return codes. Additionally, the user fixed the coverage rates specified in regexes and modified the ArgumentsBuilder class. These changes reflect the user's efforts in maintaining and enhancing the core functionality of the tool.
groovyresharperrefactoringjava11openjdk
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mysql
Jan 2014 - Apr 2015
MySQL Puppet Module / Manifests + Types & Providers
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on improving the MySQL Puppet module. Their contributions include fixing database provider issues, enhancing backup functionalities by adding options for triggers and routines, and modifying the grant privileges. They also addressed test failures within the module and adapted the script to correctly manage trigger privileges within the backup process. This work demonstrates a strong understanding of the module's functionality and the underlying MySQL database system.
mysqlpuppetpuppet-modulesupportedproviders
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