Steven Feltner
Summary
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RockstarSteven Feltner is a retired software architect turned full-time sailor in St Croix who brings a decade of hands-on engineering experience and a lengthy track record as a Principal Engineer and R&D lead at GoDaddy. He contributes to high-scale open-source infrastructure—most notably Apache Traffic Server—where his C++ work improved core algorithms (qsort optimizations) and added features like OCSP stapling and healthcheck plugins. His background spans product quality and fab automation management at Intel, master scuba instructor training, and a formal education in nuclear physics from Arizona State University, a combination that underpins a pragmatic, systems-oriented problem-solving style. Comfortable moving between low-level performance work and operational leadership, he blends seafaring discipline with a passion for resilient, production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
caching10
c-language10
proxy10
disk-cache10
object-cache10
web-cache10
memory-cache10
c-programming-language10
apache9
http29
apache29
cdn8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficserver
Aug 2015 - Apr 2019
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 32 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Steven contributed to the Apache Traffic Server project by implementing and improving core functionalities. The commits demonstrate expertise in C++ by modifying the `Vec.h` file, specifically optimizing the `qsort` function. The user also added new configuration directives related to OCSP stapling. Furthermore, the user promoted healthcheck plugins and removed deprecated configurations.
proxy-serverproxyload-balancingreverse-proxyhttpd
sfeltner-godaddy/rr-streamlining
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 months
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