Steve Dake Email & Phone Number

Scottsdale, AZ, US

Somerville, Massachusetts, US

Scottsdale, Arizona, US

Building and leading an awesome #culture to build and operate tool augmented language models #TALM. Our first tool is retrieval, also classified as a #RALM.#RALM is vastly different than #RAG. A #RALM or retrieval augmented language model integrates tools (in this case retrieval) as layers within a #LLM. #RAG and other approaches such as #MemGPT are.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Led technical delivery of Telco Cloud Automation (TCA) 1.9, 2.0.
• Technical leadership service for the 130-person organization, including 10 managers and 15 staff1/staff2 engineers.
• Implemented a technical hierarchy to improve outcomes.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Co-lead IBM's investment in Istio's upstream development.
• Delivered upstream Istio 1.3 to Istio 1.8 for consumption within four product workstreams with products in the market.
• Istio Environments Workgroup Lead responsible for multicluster, virtual machine integration, and upgrade. Led ~12 maintainers and 50+ contributors across Istio. Led the development of consistent improvement of these.
• Member of IBM's Open Technologies team with a focus on Istio. Performed open source mentoring and Istio advocacy, typically producing four release blogs a year. Mentored five people at any time with a total of ~twenty.

San Jose, California, US

• Led NetApp's Istio upstream community engagement.
• Led NetApp's productization of Istio's features in NetApp's managed Kubernetes product.
• Designed and implemented Istio multicloud Controller to automate the secure connectivity of applications between multiple Kubernetes environments.

US

https://www.openstack.org/foundation/

San Jose, CA, US

• Responsible for Cisco's upstream technical investment in Istio Service Mesh and established Cisco has a significant initial contributor to the project.
• One of five PEs and two DEs responsible for Cisco's technical development of Harmony, a system to deploy OpenStack on Kubernetes. The main responsibility was the technical leadership of "ocCore" - the core converged.
• Served as Kolla project team lead, a solution to deploy OpenStack using Ansible in Docker containers. This effort involved leading approximately 75 individual contributors from a diverse set of firms. Kolla is the.
• Led initial implementation of Magnum, a Kubernetes deployment solution for OpenStack. This effort involved leading approximately 40 individual contributors. Magnum is the community choice for managing Kubernetes on.

Raleigh, NC, US

• Founder, designer, and initial implementor of OpenStack Heat orchestration engine.
• Led 100+ people per development cycle with excellent corporate diversity to improve Heat.
• Founder of OpenStack Kolla project to deploy OpenStack in Docker containers using Ansible.
• Co-founder, designer, and initial implementor of OpenStack Magnum project to deploy Kubernetes on OpenStack.
• These projects delivered improved brand awareness and enhance OpenStack's functionality for downstream adoption within Red Hat OpenStack.

Raleigh, NC, US

• Technical co-lead for Red Hat clustering, recording over one billion dollars of revenue.
• Founded, designed, and implemented Corosync used in the modern high availability stack in Linux.
• Implemented approximately 80% of Corosync's codebase.
• Implemented the Totem protocol, which delivers extended virtual synchrony guarantees.
• Implemented the Totem Redundant Ring protocol.
• Implemented Infiniband RDMA support, UDP unicast to meet customer environmental requirements.

San Jose, California, US

• Developed three different releases of MontaVista Carrier Grade Linux with responsibility for kernel and userspace features.
• Served as editor for CGL 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0 specifications.
• Founder of OpenAIS, which implements Service Availability Forum's high availability APIs.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Developed RAID firmware, BIOS software, and web browser pluggable protocol feature to provide web management of i960 RAID hardware.