Steven Platt
Founder And Lead Engineer at Stack Dyno
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Platt is a founder and staff-level infrastructure engineer based in San Francisco with a decade-plus track record building cost-efficient, secure cloud and bare-metal systems at global scale. He combines deep platform and network expertise—from re-architecting Kubernetes for 52% GCP cost reductions to automating Terraform/Helm/ArgoCD rollouts—with hands-on product work, having built a Google Cloud–focused FinOps monorepo and a FastAPI backend that powers live BigQuery billing insights. His blockchain and Web3 experience includes CI/CD and DevOps contributions to the Mina Protocol and identifying two zero-day consensus vulnerabilities during internal validation. With a PhD-driven research background applying blockchain to cellular networks and teaching Ethereum development, he blends rigorous academic thinking with pragmatic shipping instincts. Colleagues rely on him for hard-to-automate infrastructure problems and for turning complex networking and billing data into actionable, production-ready systems.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electronic Systems Technologies, Bachelor’s Degree Electronic Systems Technologies at Southern Illinois University, CarbondaleDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Information and Communication Technologies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Information and Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu FabraUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Illinois State University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
buildkit10
docker10
buildkite10
dockers10
cicd10
terraform7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
terraformer7
ocaml5
cryptocurrency4
blockchain4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MinaProtocol/mina
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Mina is a cryptocurrency protocol with a constant size blockchain, improving scaling while maintaining decentralization and security.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 42 reviews, 53 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Steven's contributions primarily focused on improving and maintaining the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for the Mina protocol. Their work includes updating and refining Buildkite configurations, modifying test environments and dependencies to incorporate the latest bullseye updates and addressing CI test failures related to pull requests. The user also updated build configurations and deployment scripts to reflect changes in networking configurations.
minaethereumsecurityblockchainocaml
stevenplatt/cv
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:266 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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