Stephen is a Black engineering and community leader in open source, based in New York City. He currently works as a Technical Architect in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg.

He leads several projects, including Kubernetes, OpenSSF, and the TODO Group.

Within OpenSSF, he sits on the Technical Advisory Council. For Kubernetes, Stephen is a Steering Committee member and SIG Release chair, responsible for releasing one of the largest software projects on the internet.

He was previously Head of Open Source at Cisco, and has held open source engineering roles at VMware (via Heptio) and Red Hat (via CoreOS).