Steven Skeard
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Skeard is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and automating cloud-native and telecom-focused systems, currently contributing to Red Hat's tooling and lifecycle management. He has a strong track record in CI/CD, container platforms, and infrastructure automation (Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes experimentation), and has driven measurable improvements like 43% faster builds and 52% smaller artifact footprints. Comfortable across full-stack and DevOps boundaries, he has implemented custom test harnesses, topology-aware lifecycle features, and deployment automation at scale. His background in computer engineering and early hands-on network operations gives him practical insight into both low-level networking concerns and higher-level platform reliability. A mentor to co-op students and a repeat adapter of build and release processes, he brings a pragmatic focus on velocity and reproducibility. Colleagues would note his blend of telecom domain experience with modern cloud tooling as a distinguishing strength.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering, GPA 3.32/4.00, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering, GPA 3.32/4.00 at Memorial University of Newfoundland
English
Github Skills (91)
tooling10
proton10
e2e10
wine10
mechanism10
steam10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
steamworks10
watchdog10
compatibility10
openshift10
dbus10
daemon10
cnf9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
fontivan/lgsm-server-management
Mar 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:10 PRs, 36 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 11 months
fontivan/ocp-release-tooling
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Release tooling for OpenShift
Contributions:79 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 5 months
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