Steven Gorrell
DevOps Developer IV at Rackspace Technology
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Gorrell is a seasoned DevOps developer with over a decade of experience building and operating scalable AWS-native solutions from a long-tenured career at Rackspace. He combines hands-on infrastructure and automation expertise with prior leadership in SharePoint and systems administration, making him fluent across cloud, Linux, and Windows environments. At Rackspace he progressed from systems admin to DevOps Developer IV, where he focuses on reliable, enterprise-grade cloud platforms and PCI-sensitive environments. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the troposphere library by adding new CloudFormation resource support and fixing nuanced validators—work that directly benefits infrastructure-as-code users. Based in Dripping Springs, Texas, he pairs practical production experience with a systems-thinking approach to reduce operational risk at scale.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
English
Github Skills (12)
troposphere10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
python10
dynamodb9
amazon-ec29
amazon-cloudfront9
amazon-dynamodb9
ec9
autoscaling8
validators8
rds8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cloudtools/troposphere
Nov 2017 - Jan 2019
troposphere - Python library to create AWS CloudFormation descriptions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Steven contributed to the `troposphere` library by adding support for new AWS CloudFormation resources, such as Aurora BacktrackWindow and AWS::AutoScalingPlans::ScalingPlan. They also addressed bugs by fixing class definitions and correcting the EC2 SpotFleet LoadBalancersConfig structure. Furthermore, the user updated the CloudFront module with missing parameters, validators, and refined the DynamoDB validator logic. These changes improve the functionality and correctness of the library.
python-libraryaws-cloudformationpythontropospherepython3
rackspace-infrastructure-automation/aws-terraform-vpc_peer
Aug 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 3 PRs in 6 years 5 months
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