Co-founder, CTO
2008 - 2019Sauce Labs- Co-founded the company and was the primary engineer building the initial product.
- Guided architecture throughout.
- Led the transition to deploy our service with Kubernetes.
- Hired and ran the engineering and product teams. Scaled the development team.
- Architected, coded, maintained, and handed off a complex collection of about a dozen back-end microservices in Python.
- Built a web app in JavaScript and Python.
- Authored components in a variety of languages, including Go, Scala, Ruby, and JavaScript.
- Worked with sophisticated tests and tests infrastructure for a large number of significant companies, including Selenium and Appium tests and most unit testing frameworks and CI systems.
Technologies: Selenium, Kubernetes, PythonDirector, Engineer
2006 - 2007BitTorrent- Managed the development team through the release of an online movie store.
- Assisted in the development and product management of several versions of the BitTorrent client.
- Planned and guided the release of the product.
- Worked with key stakeholders to secure buy-in for the acquisition of µTorrent.
- Designed and helped to code a complex web app in Python and Javascript, featuring streaming video and credit card transactions.
Technologies: Twisted, PythonSenior Software Developer
2005 - 2006Grouper (now Sony Crackle)- Designed and built a file-sharing system in C# similar in idea to BitTorrent.
Technologies: C#Software Developer
2002 - 2003FolderShare- Built a file sharing system in C and PHP.
Technologies: PHP, C
Steven Hazel
Software Developer in San Francisco, CA, United States
Member since September 27, 2019
Steven began his career as a software developer with a keen interest in startups and new technologies, and a focus on shipping products. After many startup experiences, he decided to co-found his own company and has spent the past decade building Sauce Labs into a successful enterprise software company.
Steven is now available for hire
Portfolio
- Sauce LabsSelenium, Kubernetes, Python
- BitTorrentTwisted, Python
- Grouper (now Sony Crackle)C#
Experience
- C 20 years
- Python 20 years
- Async/Await 13 years
- Continuous Integration (CI) 10 years
- Continuous Delivery (CD) 9 years
- Kubernetes 3 years
- React 1 year
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Emacs, Kubernetes
The most amazing...
...project I've built was Sauce Labs, a Saas product for automated software testing used by many tech companies and large enterprises.
Employment
Experience
- Monoclehttps://github.com/saucelabs/monocle
An Async/Await system for Python 2 which inspired the version of this feature included in Python 3.
- iSignhttps://github.com/isignpy/isign
Apple iOS code-signing implementation in cross-platform Python.
- Codepad
An early supervised compiler/interpreter, allowing online compilation and execution of code in a variety of languages, with a secure container-like back end written in Haskell.
- Sauce Labshttps://saucelabs.com/
A popular Cloud service for web and mobile testing. This involves a Cloud of VMs and mobile devices, and a microservice-based architecture for coordinating the Cloud, executing tests, collecting assets, and serving up an API and UI. I was the primary architect and wrote and maintained much of the code over many years.
Skills
Languages
Python, C, PHP, Ruby, Scala, Go, Reason ML, Rust, JavaScript, Haskell, C#, CSS, HTMLFrameworks
Selenium, Twisted, Django, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ant DesignLibraries/APIs
Selenium WebDriver, Asyncio, React, FFTWParadigms
Functional Testing, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Unit Testing, Functional ProgrammingStorage
JSON, MySQL, NoSQL, CouchDB, Redis, MongoDBOther
Async/Await, Scalability, VST, Audio, DSP, Digital Audio Workstations (DAW)Platforms
Kubernetes, DockerTools
Emacs
