Steven Sumichrast
Consulting Systems Engineer, Enterprise at Everpure
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Sumichrast is a seasoned systems and storage engineer with 16 years of experience designing resilient, high-performance infrastructure for large enterprises across gaming, media, finance, and utilities. He specializes in storage architecture (Pure Storage, NAS/Block), VMware/cloud foundations, and Cisco UCS, and has led migrations, automation and datacenter redesigns that reduced costs and improved uptime. Steven repeatedly drives automation at scale—authoring hundreds of PowerShell/PowerCLI scripts to streamline provisioning, backups, and routine operations—freeing teams for strategic work. His work includes reengineering backup and virtualization platforms (reducing alerting by >90% at Blizzard) and delivering VCF/NSX migrations and scale-out storage designs that saved millions. A trusted advisor to storage and networking teams, he blends hands-on implementation with architecture and operational governance for regulated and high-availability environments. Based in the Chicago area with a Computer Information Systems degree from Purdue Northwest, he’s known for turning complex requirements into auditable, low-friction solutions.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Information Systems, Bachelors of Science, Computer Information Systems at Purdue University Northwest
Github Skills (2)
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configurations1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Great-Lakes-Planetarium-Association/live.glpa.org
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
The live.glpa.org site is a web application that provides audio and video links to the various live streamed events at the annual GLPA conference. The web application resides at https://live.glpa.org.
Contributions:5 releases, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 months
eventsjavascriptweb-applicationaudiostreamed
ssumichrast/networking
Jul 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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