Platform & developer-experience engineer — 25 years, hands-on in Java. I build the systems and tooling that let engineering teams ship faster and more reliably: CI/CD, observability, cloud-native platforms, and AI-native developer workflows.
Much of my recent work is out in the open in the dotCMS platform — developer experience, CI/CD and observability — alongside internal infrastructure work. My contribution history tells the fuller story; this profile's own repositories are just a slice.
- 🔭 Focus: developer experience · platform engineering · observability (Grafana LGTM / OpenTelemetry) · AI-assisted engineering (agent context architecture, reusable agent skills)
- 🛠️ Java · Spring · AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform · event-driven systems
- 📫 steve@boltn.com · LinkedIn
Consulting through Boltn, and open to senior platform / developer-experience engineering roles.



