Steve Taranto
Cloud Engineer Lead at Progressive Insurance
Avon, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Taranto is a Cloud Engineer Lead with nearly four decades of IT experience and nine years focused on cloud and modern application architectures. He blends hands-on engineering, solution architecture, and technical pre-sales to guide organizations through Kubernetes, containerization, and hybrid cloud adoption. At Progressive he leads cloud initiatives, after driving Kubernetes strategy and professional services at CDW and Sirius Computer Solutions. Steve’s background spans enterprise application modernization, WebSphere-era middleware, and large-scale migration projects, giving him a rare perspective across legacy-to-cloud transitions. He’s skilled at aligning technical roadmaps to business value and enabling sales and delivery teams to deliver measurable outcomes. Based in Avon, Ohio, he’s known for turning complex infrastructure challenges into pragmatic, scalable implementation plans.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSBA, MIS, BSBA, MIS at Bowling Green State University
Stackoverflow
959reputation
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Github Skills (109)
graph10
django-rest-framework10
viewer10
django9
ansible9
rest9
api9
textual9
cli9
kubelet9
k3d9
ubuntu9
terraform9
python9
hat9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mysidlabs/cpuhog
Dec 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
mysidlabs/k8s-demo
Jan 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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