Steven Gettys
Staff Platform Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Gettys is a Staff Platform Engineer based in Seattle with seven years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and DevOps tooling. He combines deep Go and Python expertise with practical mastery of Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD to deliver secure, scalable platforms in regulated environments. As a CNCF Porter maintainer and current DevSecOps lead at Defense Unicorns, he bridges open-source operator development with mission-focused platform delivery. Steven has a track record of mentoring engineers, designing resilient microservices, and automating complex deployments across AWS and Azure while on-call for production systems. His background in electrical and electronics engineering and early firmware/hardware test work gives him a systems-level perspective that informs pragmatic automation and reliability choices.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
DeVry University
Github Skills (64)
docker10
artifact10
k3s10
sbom10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
cosign10
azure-resource-manager10
docker-registry10
installer10
kind10
resource-manager10
azure10
distribute10
k8s10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sgettys/operator
May 2022 - May 2024
The Porter Operator gives you a native, integrated experience for managing your bundles from Kubernetes. It is the recommended way to automate your bundle pipeline with support for GitOps.
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 PRs, 53 pushes in 2 years
porterintegratedpipelinehelmbundle
sgettys/porter-test-me
Feb 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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