Steven Briscoe
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSteven Briscoe is an experienced cloud and DevOps engineer with 11 years building infrastructure, embedded OS tooling, and self-hosting platforms from startup to enterprise. He founded and led Animo Cloud to simplify serverless cloud computing, and earlier held technical leadership roles at Intel and as CTO/co-founder in multiple startups. His open-source contributions to Umbrel — including kernel security patches, Docker and proxy improvements, Tor hidden service setups, and network refactors — show a hands-on ability to harden and modernize home-server and distributed systems. Based in the UK, he blends systems-level debugging with product-minded infrastructure work, often surfacing non-obvious fixes like removing hard-coded container IPs and improving app proxy cookie/header handling.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Newark High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Sheffield Hallam UniversityBTEC, BTEC at Lincoln College
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
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docker10
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sh10
shell10
raspberry-pi10
environ10
devops10
tor10
cicd9
bitcoins9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
getumbrel/umbrel-apps
May 2022 - Jan 2023
The official app repository of the Umbrel App Store. Submit apps and updates here. Learn how → https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel-apps#readme
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:340 reviews, 46 commits, 254 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily focused on updating and configuring environment variables, particularly related to application port settings and network configurations. Their contributions included setting up Tor hidden services for various applications within the Umbrel ecosystem. Furthermore, the user updated and adjusted dependencies for different apps. Additionally, the user removed hard-coded container IPs and refactored the network config.
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getumbrel/umbrel
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store. Buy a pre-built Umbrel Home with umbrelOS, or install on a Raspberry Pi or any x86 system.
Role in this project:DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 44 commits, 21 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the backend and infrastructure aspects of the Umbrel project. They focused on updating the core OS by patching a critical security vulnerability in the raspberry pi kernel, migrating existing Bitcoin, LND, and Electrs installations, and integrating third-party app repo support. Additionally, the user worked on enhancements to the app proxy functionality, including cookie handling and upstream header configurations, and improving the update process and Docker configuration.
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