Steven Kotwal
Senior DevOps Engineer at Blue Origin
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Kotwal is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure and deployment pipelines across startups and enterprise teams. He’s driven production-grade DevSecOps work at IBM and now supports mission-focused systems at Blue Origin’s New Shepard program, blending reliability with security-minded automation. His background includes founding a successful gaming platform that reached millions of users, giving him rare end-to-end perspective from product ops to scalable backend systems. Comfortable across AWS, Kubernetes, ETL workflows, and Linux operations, he has repeatedly introduced in-house tooling to streamline evolving tech stacks. Based in Florida, he pairs a Computer Science degree with a practical, maker mindset—self-described "devops enjoyer"—that keeps him curious about new tooling and deployment patterns. Colleagues would call him a pragmatic problem-solver who translates hobbyist creativity into reliable production outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts - AA Computer Science, Associate of Arts - AA Computer Science at Hillsborough Community CollegeBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Florida
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Github Skills (145)
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file-sharing10
screeps10
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paper10
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color-picker10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
panda/panda
Sep 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
panda/dot
Jun 2019 - Dec 2023
dotfiles
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 6 months
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