Bio

Open Source Technologist and Evangelist. During Steven's nearly 30 years in the technology industry he’s transitioned from development through infrastructure and operations, with a bit of devops on the side, into architecture roles. His experience encompasses a broad range of Unix and Linux and Cloud technologies, about which he regularly speaks at public events including linux.conf.au, LinuxWorld, OSCON, OpenStack Summit and Red Hat Summit. Deployment and Management of Kubernetes and Cloud Native infrastructure based on Red Hat OpenShift, and assisting organisations as they undertake their journey towards a Container Centric devops / gitops / devsecops future. Architecting, automating and operating large scale Linux deployments, including delivery and management of Enterprise Linux within heterogeneous business environments. Over 10 years of broad operational experience from building and managing early e-commerce platforms, to developing devops capability that leverage's continuous development and automation to deliver faster outcomes. Continues to leverage Open Source solutions on behalf of Enterprise customers to reduce costs or improve flexibility and capability. On-demand infrastructure delivery on physical and virtual environments. Virtualised solutions leveraging VMWare, Xen or KVM for both prototyping and production workloads. Web infrastructure solutions, troubleshooting and optimisation. Operational tools, process improvements and frameworks for managing Linux/Unix, and J2EE environments. Open Source governance and guidance. Acquisition, transcoding, storage and delivery of media, utilising Open Source tools. Specialities: Linux Architecture, Kubernetes, Containers, Web Infrastructure, Capacity Planning, Cloud Capability, Infrastructure Troubleshooting and Optimisation, Governance, Public Speaking, Penguin Wrangler.