Steven Barre
Senior Container Operations Analyst
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Barre is a Senior Container Operations Analyst in Victoria, BC with 13 years of hands-on experience designing, operating, and automating production OpenShift/Kubernetes platforms. He currently leads a team of four at Advanced Solutions, driving cluster builds, a major v3-to-v4 migration, and reproducible automation to reduce toil. Known for pragmatic systems work, he has improved MySQL security and configuration at the cookbook level and built monitoring and testing tools that caught issues before customers noticed. Outside of work he is active in labour representation and community governance as a BCGEU shop steward and strata council member, and brings an analytical interest in personal finance and monetary theory to problem solving. His background spans physical infrastructure, private cloud, and container-native storage, giving him a rare blend of operational depth and automation-focused engineering.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Information Technology and Applied Systems, Associate's degree, Information Technology and Applied Systems at Malaspina University-College
English
Github Skills (10)
database-security10
chef-client10
databases10
cookbook10
chef-solo10
server-configuration10
database-connection10
mysql10
database10
sql9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/mysql
Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
Development repository for the mysql cookbook
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:12 commits in 27 days
Contributions summary:Steven primarily focused on improving the configuration and security of the MySQL database system within the cookbook. Their contributions involved implementing the steps from `mysql_secure_installation`, fixing typos and removing duplicate lines, and refactoring the configuration files to address issues such as duplicate settings and incorrect options. These changes included renaming keys, removing unused attributes, and adjusting settings to better align with best practices and security standards. Additionally, the user removed outdated and redundant code.
cookbookmysqlchef-resourcemysql-servermanaged-by-terraform
bcgov/platform-services-status-page-notifications
Aug 2019 - Mar 2025
A simple repo for the source of notification files, separating it from the code itself to keep interaction as simple as possible.
Contributions:101 reviews, 243 PRs, 176 pushes in 5 years 8 months
interactionmonitorkeepdevopsstatuspage
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