# Steven Ewing

> Experienced Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/stevenewing

Experienced Software Engineer skilled in Python, Perl, C++, Agile Methodologies, and Storage.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Coinbase
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco, CA

### Senior Software Engineer @ PolySign, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Oakland, CA
Designed and built cloud platform for cryptocurrency asset custody product using Docker, Kubernetes and AWS.

Built multi-AZ and multi-region HA and DR configurations designed to meet regulatory scrutiny and support customer business continuity.

Wrote technical aspects of financial regulatory filings.

Implemented production and test deployment automation for Docker, Kubernetes and AWS with Python, Cloudformation and Terraform.

Implemented and maintained rippled and bitcoind deployments.

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Built and maintained tier-1 data localization systems powering Amazon consumer sites and products. Shifted a multi-TB legacy database from Oracle/Hibernate 3.1 to RDS for PostgreSQL/Hibernate 5.0.

Designed and implemented a translation workflow orchestrator as a prototype for the next generation of software localization.

Executed ops and on call for a tier-1 system with global use and directly supported Prime Day and Q4.

### Software Architect @ Panasas
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
Consulted with customers pre-sale, demonstrated pre-release software and discussed customer environments: workflows, network, client OS and application architecture.

Implemented kernel-mode file system features, ported filesystem software from Linux to macOS; test and debug performance issues with PanFS kernel module.

Revised and simplified performance testing for new storage platforms. Designed a performance integration system.

### Senior Engineer @ NetApp
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Pittsburgh, PA
Analyzed customer-found cases and QA-found bugs where Data ONTAP became unresponsive to data requests or storage management operations. Led the design and implementation of kernel and user-space components to detect failures, collect debug data, and recover from failures. Diagnosed failures detected by these components and worked with teams to improve system stability.

### Member of Technical Staff, Software Development @ NetApp
Jan 2006 – Jan 2013 | Pittsburgh, PA
Led a team developers to create a secure, scalable group management scheme for clustered storage systems. Worked with other teams on feature design and integration with group management software infrastructure.

Build and maintained a C++ element management framework and implemented storage management features.

### Member of Technical Staff, Software QA @ NetApp
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
Developed test plans, test cases, and executed network high availability testing for the SpinFS clustered storage system. Coded tests and stress tested scale-out file system using single data volumes and striped data volumes with hundreds of precisely controlled clients.

### Software Test Engineer @ Spinnaker Networks
Jan 2002 – Jan 2004

### Member of Technical Staff, Software @ Inrange Technologies
Jan 2000 – Jan 2002

### Software Intern @ Computerm
Jan 2000 – Jan 2000


## Education
### MS in Telecommunications
University of Pittsburgh

### BS in Information science
University of Pittsburgh


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/steven-ewing

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Last updated: 2026-04-12