Summary
Steve Skrla is a Senior Staff Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in data processing, distributed systems, and stream processing, currently focused on Kafka and Kotlin. Based in Sandy, Utah, he has driven architecture and platform development at Tenable and previously helped design the Java web application stack at Qualys, where he scaled distributed systems and mentored teams. His background spans roles from web developer and server administrator to performance analysis intern at Dell, giving him a practical, performance-minded approach to system design. Steve is comfortable bridging hands-on implementation with architectural leadership, defining development practices and solving production-scale distribution challenges. He brings a multidisciplinary undergraduate background in computer science and art, which informs a pragmatic yet creative perspective on engineering problems. Colleagues rely on him for steady delivery of resilient streaming architectures and for turning complex requirements into maintainable platforms.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
CPSC, Art, CPSC, Art at Texas A&M University