Steven Black
Senior DevOps Engineer at Rhythmic Technologies, Inc.
Vienna, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Dickenson is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years in IT and more than a decade leading cloud infrastructure, currently serving as VP of Engineering and Operations at Rhythmic Technologies. He designs and operates compliant public and private cloud platforms for startups, SMBs, and federal customers, blending hands-on engineering with operational leadership of managed services teams. Steven’s background includes scaling campus-wide and hosted environments—from a 500-client K-12 deployment to enterprise VMware and unified storage platforms—reflecting a pragmatic focus on simplicity, automation, and reliability. He is adept at safely integrating emerging technologies into production and translating pedagogical and regulatory requirements into robust technical solutions. Based in Ashburn, VA, he pairs deep systems expertise with a calm, steady leadership style hinted at by his minimalist GitHub bio, “Taking it easy.”
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
UMBCEconomics B.S., Economics, Business/Managerial Economics, Economics B.S., Economics, Business/Managerial Economics at George Mason University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
tfsec10
serverless10
scanner10
cloud-services10
nodejs10
aws-secrets-manager10
css10
terraform-provider10
oracle10
terraform10
route53-resolver10
data-engineer10
git10
graph10
infrastructure-as-code10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
sblack4/oracle-advanced-analytics
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
rhythmictech/ansible-role-iqserver
Jun 2020 - May 2022
Ansible role to manage a Sonatype IQ Server installation
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 5 commits in 1 year 10 months
ansible-rolesonatypenexusnexus-iqansible
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