Steven Garcia
Software Engineer II at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Garcia is a Software Engineer II with nine years of experience designing and operating secure, Linux-based systems spanning bare-metal, private OpenStack, and public cloud deployments. He blends network and security engineering—firewall automation, VPNs, RADIUS/2FA integrations—with full-stack development in Python, JavaScript and Java to deliver maintainable, auditable automation and web interfaces (Django/DRF, Flask, Vue). At Booking.com he built hybrid cloud integrations backed by Kubernetes, real-time asset inventory systems, and API-driven Palo Alto firewall orchestration at global scale. Recently he’s focused on distributed task processing with Kafka, RabbitMQ and Redis/Celery for IoT-style workloads, applying messaging patterns to abstract infrastructure and improve reliability. His background in lab science and chemistry early in his career contributes a methodical, data-driven approach to troubleshooting complex, multi-vendor networks and security platforms.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, Math, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, Math, Computer Science at Stephen F. Austin State University
Github Skills (20)
fluentd8
logging8
fluent-bit7
opentelemetry6
stream-processing6
logstash6
elasticsearch5
promql5
prometheus5
linux5
windows5
monitoring5
filebeat4
bsd4
heartbeat3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sgarc57/dropwizard-gui
Oct 2019 - Jul 2023
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
biocrawler/md-web-scrapers
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
This is the home repository of team BioCrawCraw's contributions in Copenhagen BioHackathon 2020.
Contributions:131 commits, 26 PRs, 69 pushes in 1 year 4 months
biohackathon
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