Steven L
Senior Performance Engineer at Snowflake
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven L is a Senior Performance Engineer based in San Jose with a strong background in Python, AWS, Kubernetes, distributed microservices, and networking. He leverages nearly two decades of systems and RF engineering experience—spanning Boeing, Raytheon, Brocade, Cisco, and now Snowflake—to diagnose, break, and rebuild complex production systems for higher scale and reliability. Known for combining low-level networking expertise with cloud-native practices, he excels at performance tuning across service boundaries and infrastructure layers. Steven’s academic foundation in electrical engineering and communications (UC Davis, USC) underpins a pragmatic approach to observability, latency reduction, and resilient system design. Colleagues rely on him to translate subtle protocol and network behaviors into actionable performance fixes that prevent outages. He brings a rare blend of avionics-era rigor and modern SRE/DevOps tooling to large-scale data platforms.
4 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineer (RF Communication), B.S., Electrical Engineer (RF Communication) at University of California, DavisM.S, Electrical Engineer (Communication Network), M.S, Electrical Engineer (Communication Network) at University of Southern California
Github Skills (9)
foundationdb10
transactional10
key-value-store10
embeddable10
distributed-database10
database10
acid10
bigtable9
key-value9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
sfc-gh-stli/foundationdb
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
transactionalfoundationdbdatabasekey-value-storekey-value
apple/foundationdb
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Contributions:5 reviews, 3 commits, 10 PRs in 4 months
bigtabletransactionaldistributed-databasefoundationdbdatabase
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