Steven Sklar
Senior Cloud Engineer at QuestDB
Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Sklar is a Senior Cloud Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating production-grade platforms, currently focused at QuestDB in Boca Raton. He blends deep DevOps and platform leadership from senior roles at Hyperscience and as Director of Platform at Predata with hands-on back-end contributions to high-performance open-source projects like QuestDB—adding financial SQL functions and dynamic config reloading. Comfortable at the intersection of finance and engineering, he began his career in fixed income and credit research, which informs his pragmatic approach to data and trading-related systems. Steven excels at shipping resilient, observable cloud services and improving developer experience across CI/CD and runtime environments. Known for moving between strategic platform ownership and code-level problem solving, he brings both mentorship and individual-contributor velocity to teams. He holds a BA in Economics and Finance and spent time studying economics at LSE, a background that fuels his quantitative instincts in system design.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
London School of Economics and Political ScienceBA, Economics, Finance, BA, Economics, Finance at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (11)
timeseries-database10
javas10
sql10
java10
database9
configuration-management9
databases9
finance8
dockers5
cpp5
docker5
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
questdb/questdb
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
QuestDB is a high performance, open-source, time-series database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 1 commit, 14 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Steven contributed to the QuestDB project by implementing new SQL functions and modifying existing configurations. They added a `spread` function for financial calculations and a `mid` price function. Furthermore, they modified the core configuration to support dynamic reloading of properties and made changes to the module-info.java to expose the newly added functions. They also addressed build configurations related to the RHEL image.
simdfinancial-analysisgrafanatime-seriestsdb
questdb/questdb-operator
Jun 2023 - Jan 2024
Kubernetes Operator for QuestDB
Contributions:11 releases, 48 PRs, 76 pushes in 7 months
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