Steve Taylor is seen as a visionary and industry leader in the area of service based architecture, open-source security, Kubernetes, DevOps process improvement, software build and release, and software supply chain. Steve was designing continuous delivery pipelines for Fortune 1000 companies before the term ‘continuous integration’ was ever used.  He is the mastermind behind OpenMake Meister, a build automation solution that has served its customers for over 20 years.  Steve is also the architect of DeployHub, the first continuous security intelligence platorm. Steve is a primary contributor to the Ortelius CDF project and currently serves as a CDF TOC Board Member.  Steve received the CDF Top Contributor award for 2023, and Top Pyrsia Contributor for 2023.

Prior to DeployHub, Steve was the Chief Architect and CFO of OpenMake Software where he was committed to keeping the Meister Build automation solution relevant to its’ 400+ customers, as well as keeping the company’s financials sound and without the need for outside investment. Steve leads a lean team of software developers that can achieve more than most large teams.