Steve Devos Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington

I designed AWS Backup from its inception through its second year in operation. I worked closely with other AWS storage service teams to help define their integration, and help them understand the users we were targeting. I built and lead a team of 30+ developers, and together we implemented the initial functionality, and added 4 major features each year..

Greater Seattle Area

• Chief Architect, responsible for all data access agents, used in archiving, protection, and analysis of customer data. I created a cohesive solution for accessing and analyzing customers’ data from a highly diverse set.
• Designed REST interfaces for microservices that allow all Veritas applications to collect and access data and metadata from our customers’ enterprise systems and applications whether on premises, remote office, or in.
• Designed and developed a content catalog solution that is self describing, compact, and allows dynamic column definitions

Greater Seattle Area

• Lead Architect, providing guidance and vision to over 50 engineers, thus ensuring the solutions that teams developed were consistent, maintainable, supportable, and secure. I educated and guided new team members.
• Designed and developed a method for restoring individual messages and items from a database backup of Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint
• Facilitated the development of all data collection agents for NetBackup and BackupExec, such as VMs, OS platforms, databases, and applications
• Redesigned the data protection engine and agent architecture in order to more easily protect and recover clustered and distributed applications
• Invented new methods to identify modified content, allowing for new incremental backup types
• Reverse engineered Microsoft’s SQL file format in order to identify and extract documents and items stored in SharePoint

Microsoft Campus, Redmond WA

• Technical representative for Microsoft, helping a variety of data protection vendors build backup solutions that support Windows platform and Microsoft Exchange. I managed the architectural designs of 20+ Veritas.
• Provided guidance to Microsoft’s data protection vendors, thus ensuring a rich market of backup solutions for Windows and Office solutions such as Exchange and SharePoint.
• Designed and built a data protection agent for SharePoint
• Facilitated the development of all Microsoft data access agents used by both “Backup Exec” and “Net Backup”
• Developed the Win32 API for backing up NTFS that shipped as part of Windows
• Led the development of the NTBackup application that shipped with Windows NT

Orlando, Florida, United States

Lead the development of the backup engine behind BackupExec

Melbourne, Florida Area

• We designed an built a rugged hand-held computer for use by the military.
• Wrote the keyboard controller in assembly
• Wrote, the disk, keyboard, find video BIOS