Steven Ceuppens
Distinguished Technologist & Lead Architect AI & Device Platforms, TIO
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Ceuppens is a Distinguished Technologist and Lead Architect specializing in AI and device platforms with over 12 years of experience designing cloud-native systems at HP. He has progressed through multiple lead-architect roles driving cloud and immersive platform transformations, blending deep C++/Qt application expertise with modern cloud and AI platform architecture. A pragmatic open-source contributor, he has made backend performance and tooling improvements to the widely used eBPF project Cilium, demonstrating hands-on systems-level optimization. Based in Fort Collins, he pairs product-focused architecture with a history of hands-on engineering, CI/CD implementation, and cross-functional training. Colleagues rely on him to bridge low-level systems performance work and strategic platform roadmaps while mentoring teams through language and tooling transitions. Outside work he’s a foodie and traveler who brings curiosity and pragmatic creativity to complex technical challenges.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
A1, System analist - programmer, A1, System analist - programmer at Syntra Antwerpen en Vlaams BrabantA2, Industrial Electicity, A2, Industrial Electicity at VTI Lier
English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
kubernetes10
go10
ebpf10
kubernetes-pods10
bpf9
networking9
security9
cni9
observability8
container8
debug8
debugging8
build-automation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Jun 2017 - May 2018
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributes to the core functionality of Cilium by making changes to backend code. They refactored code by moving configuration files, altered the use of data structures like LabelLists to LabelArrays for performance optimization, and modified endpoint and policy-related logic. The user also improved the project by addressing a typo in the Istio getting started guide. Furthermore, they updated the version string handling and added features to the bugtool.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
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