Steven Burgess
Infrastructure Engineer at Apollo Global Management, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Burgess is an Infrastructure Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and stabilizing production and test infrastructure across finance and cloud-native companies. He has led SRE efforts, improved observability, and created runbooks and processes that measurably reduced incident times and misfiled tickets. Steven’s work spans virtualization (ESXi, KVM), storage (ZFS), CI/CD and cloud integrations (AWS, GCP, Azure), reflecting a practical systems-engineering approach to reliability. At Delphix and Zipline he combined debugging rigor with Python development to automate tests and link on-prem systems to cloud services. Now based in New York and working at Apollo, he brings a collaborative, cross-team mindset that turns operational complexity into clear ownership and repeatable outcomes. Colleagues describe him as a thoughtful developer and “overall swell fella,” highlighting both technical depth and steady interpersonal skills.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University at Buffalo
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Github Skills (52)
container10
docker10
openzfs10
docker-cli10
ecosystem10
freebsd10
moby10
linux10
go10
solaris10
assemble10
golang10
shell10
cli10
cli-app9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stevenburgess/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Aug 2023
My dot files
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 8 months
stevenburgess/zfs-tests
Apr 2014 - Feb 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 10 months
zfssuite
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