Raleigh, NC

Patrick Steger
Lead Software Engineer & Cloud Solutions Architect

Lead Software Engineer and Cloud Solutions Architect with 15+ years of experience designing, building, deploying, and operating production software for SaaS, cybersecurity, telemetry, data platforms, financial services, scientific instrumentation, and consumer applications.

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Selected Results

5d → 45m

Kubernetes Cluster Deployment Time (IronNet)

−40%

Annual AWS Spend via Autoscaling EKS (IronNet)

−80%

CI/CD Cost, CircleCI → CodeBuild (IDMA)

~100

Production Kubernetes Clusters Operated

Projects

Recent Work

- Go
- Bubble Tea
- MIT
wxterm
Cross-platform terminal weather app with animated precipitation radar over a vector-tile base map rendered in Unicode Braille. No API keys required.
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- Bash
- systemd
- udev
- MIT
zenbook-duo-display-watcher
ASUS Zenbook Duo support for Fedora / KDE Plasma on Wayland: reads vendor HID hotkeys via hidraw and re-emits them through uinput, plus auto-rotation and dock/undock handling.
View on GitHub
- Talos
- Flux CD
- Terraform
- Cilium
- Private
CalloutCRM GitOps Platform
Talos Linux Kubernetes on Proxmox via Terraform, managed with Flux CD across dev and prod overlays; Cilium, Traefik, cert-manager, Loki, and SOPS.

Speaking

Recent Talks

Developing for the Cloud: Infrastructure as Code and the AWS CDK

Modern Web · Oct 2019

Intro to Serverless Framework with AWS

Triangle Serverless · Mar 2018

Serverlessconf Recap

Triangle Serverless · Oct 2017

Serverless 101: The 5Ws and 1H of Serverless

Triangle Serverless · Aug 2017

Let’s Talk

Platform engineering, Kubernetes, backend services, and AWS architecture.