Steven Christou
Jenkins Core And Plugin Contibutor at Jenkins project
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Christou is a seasoned DevOps engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating scalable infrastructure, currently driving platform work at CoreStory after senior roles at Roku and Sure. He brings deep expertise in AWS, Terraform, EKS, GitOps (FluxCD), and cost optimization—having delivered production Go services and sizable savings through rightsizing and Savings Plans. A long-time Jenkins core and plugin contributor and former Jenkins developer, Steven has intimate knowledge of CI/CD internals, authored tooling used by support teams, and is recognized as a Jenkins expert through talks and maintainership. His open-source contributions span high-profile projects like Jenkins and Cobertura, where he improved reliability, testing, and plugin integrations. Known for simplifying troubleshooting and empowering support teams, he combines hands-on engineering with a knack for operationalizing complex systems at scale. Based in California, he pairs an engineer’s curiosity with a track record of shipping durable production services.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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12answers
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Github Skills (50)
unit-testing10
api-rest10
test-driven-design10
zendesk-api10
jira10
apidoc10
sonarqube10
api-design10
groovy10
restful-api10
testing10
bytecode-manipulation10
atlassian10
cicd10
plugin10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
christ66/cobertura
Apr 2013 - Sep 2013
Cobertura
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:118 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 5 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily addressed conflict resolutions within the Cobertura project, a code coverage tool for Java. Their contributions involved resolving merge conflicts in Java source files, indicating work related to integrating code changes. They also made updates to test files and upgraded dependencies, specifically to ASM 4.1, a Java bytecode manipulation library.
cobertura
cobertura/cobertura
Jun 2013 - Mar 2018
Cobertura
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:74 commits, 11 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to improving the testing infrastructure and test coverage of the Cobertura project. They added new unit tests, fixed existing test cases, and refactored test utilities. Their work included enhancing the test suite for specific issues and ensuring compatibility with different JDK versions. They also introduced branch coverage metrics in the test suite.
groovyresharperrefactoringjava11openjdk
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