About

Patrick Steger

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.

Experienced across multiple languages and backend frameworks, REST and GraphQL APIs, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and secure multi-tenant architecture. Proven record of leading engineering teams, reducing deployment time and cloud cost, and improving reliability.

Skills

Cloud

AWS (EKS, EC2, Lambda, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, Cognito, CloudFormation, CloudFront), DigitalOcean, Heroku

Containers

Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Talos Linux, Proxmox, Helm

CI/CD & GitOps

Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, AWS CodeBuild, Flux CD, Argo CD, Kustomize

Infrastructure and Configuration as Code

Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SOPS, Rook-Ceph, Serverless Framework

Databases

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Couchbase, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle

Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Cilium, Traefik, cert-manager, Datadog, New Relic

Certifications & Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

2019

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

2020

Bachelor of Science in Game Design and Development

Full Sail University · Winter Park, FL

Community

AWS Community Builder

2020–2025

Organizer, Triangle Serverless Group

2017–2024

Co-Organizer, Triangle .NET User Group (TriNUG)

2017–2019

Global Game Jam: InterTubes (XNA), 2D Android Engine Backend, SpaceBeats (Unity3D)

2010, 2011, 2013