Steven Kryskalla
Firefighter EMT at Walled Lake Fire Department
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolSteven Kryskalla is a seasoned software engineer and consultant with 15 years of experience building reliable back-end systems, SRE/DevOps tooling, and full-stack applications for companies from startups to Dropbox and Duo. He combines hands-on infrastructure work—scaling exabyte-class storage and desktop platform services—with a consultative practice teaching and mentoring engineers, and has run live Python courses and technical interviews for Karat and Thinkful. An active open-source contributor, he has improved widely used Python tooling like flake8 and hardened Fabric/Cuisine file operations, demonstrating attention to robust error handling and test quality. Based in the Detroit area, he also serves his community as a certified Firefighter/EMT, bringing calm under pressure and operational discipline from the firehouse to production incidents.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science (mathematics minor), Bachelors of Science, Computer Science (mathematics minor) at Lawrence Technological University
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Github Skills (21)
static-code-analysis10
python10
flake10
linter10
fabric10
curl10
image9
testing9
pylint9
flask9
macos9
socket9
pip9
vim6
flash6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sebastien/cuisine
Jun 2012 - Jul 2012
Chef-like functionality for Fabric
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Steven primarily focused on improving the reliability and maintainability of the `cuisine` library, which provides Chef-like functionality for Fabric. Their commits address potential issues in file handling operations, preventing exceptions from being swallowed and ensuring accurate file operations. They refactored code by renaming the `mode` function to `get_mode`, and they corrected logic in file writing and uploading processes. The user also modified testing to enhance robustness.
fabricmcminecraftfabricchef
PyCQA/flake8
Feb 2012 - Feb 2012
flake8 is a python tool that glues together pycodestyle, pyflakes, mccabe, and third-party plugins to check the style and quality of some python code.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to enhancing the `flake8` linter. Their work included adding new functionality, such as an option to exit with a zero status code regardless of warnings. They also added and refined warning codes and error messages related to various linting checks, specifically for the `mccabe` and `pyflakes` modules. Furthermore, the user corrected formatting and updated tests within the project.
linterpythonstylelintpycodestylemccabe
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