Summary
Steven Tobias is a cloud-focused software engineer with 14 years of IT experience and seven years specializing in infrastructure, operations, and automation across Windows and Linux environments. He has led cloud architecture and automation at Red8, accelerating deployments from months to days through IaC, CI/CD, and containerization, and most recently contributes to Observable Space after senior roles at Bird. Comfortable with tooling like Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, and Prometheus, he bridges networking, security, and developer experience to deliver compliant, self-service infrastructure. Steven is experienced in multi-account AWS environments, networking automation (F5, Palo Alto, Fortigate), and has driven continuous compliance and large-scale remediation efforts. He pairs hands-on engineering with training and go-to-market work, having created bootcamps and public-facing content to scale team capabilities. Based in Los Angeles, he’s an open-source-minded practitioner who favors automation-first solutions that eliminate configuration drift.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at San José State University