Steven Ryland
Azure Cache For Redis at Microsoft
Greater Phoenix Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Ryland is a Principal Software Engineer and cloud architect with over a decade of experience building and securing large-scale Azure services, now leading NEXT AI security efforts at Microsoft. He combines deep full-stack engineering with pragmatic infrastructure design—repeatedly modernizing systems from VMs to Kubernetes, cutting costs while doubling throughput, and turning fragile services into scalable, auditable platforms. Steven is a hands-on mentor who elevates team practices across DevOps, security, and compliance, and has a proven knack for translating complex requirements into Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Bicep/ARM and robust CI/CD. Comfortable across languages (C#, JavaScript, Java, Go, Python, C/C++) and multi-cloud environments, he also brings practical open-source and observability experience (Prometheus/Grafana, Istio, Linkerd) to production-grade deployments. Notably, he has driven cross-team initiatives that enable intelligent rollouts and zero-downtime releases for tier-1 managed services while reviving stalled projects into safe, compliant development paths.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (200)
reverse-proxy10
command-line-interface10
azure-functions10
proxy10
microsoft-azure10
asp-net-core10
stress-testing10
azure-cli10
asp-net10
azure-sdk10
letsencrypt10
charts10
dotnet10
sdk10
helm10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
DrEsteban/SolarGateway_PrometheusProxy
Oct 2022 - Dec 2024
Exposes Tesla Powerwall & Enphase solar gateway metrics as Prometheus metrics
Contributions:8 releases, 3 PRs, 118 pushes in 2 years 2 months
DrEsteban/BambuVideoStream
May 2024 - Nov 2024
Proof of concept app to stream MQTT from Bambu Lab 3D printer to OBS for video streaming.
Contributions:11 releases, 2 PRs, 91 pushes in 6 months
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