Summary
Steven Harms is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 16+ years building and leading engineering teams and global production systems across Fortune 5, high-frequency trading, retail, and government. He blends hands-on proficiency in Linux, C, Python, Clojure and cloud platforms with senior leadership experience running organizations of up to 54 engineers and delivering heavily automated platforms like Cloud.gov and Login.gov. Known for operational rigor, he has driven data center consolidation, high-availability architectures, and continuous delivery pipelines using Cloud Foundry, Concourse, Terraform and BOSH. Currently based in Denver, he continues to combine enterprise architecture and technical training with day-to-day SRE practice at a large tech company. Less obvious: he moves comfortably between deeply technical troubleshooting for latency-sensitive trading systems and policy-minded transformation efforts inside government IT.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of Michigan-Dearborn