Steven Zydek
About Steven Zydek
Steven Zydek is a Staff Platform Engineer at Kohl's with extensive experience in database administration, systems management, and UNIX/Linux systems administration.
Title
Steven Zydek holds the position of Staff Platform Engineer at Kohl's.
Current Employment at Kohl's
Since 2022, Steven Zydek has been working at Kohl's as a Staff Platform Engineer. Prior to this, he served as a Senior Platform Engineer at the same company from 2020 to 2022. His roles at Kohl’s involve designing and implementing robust infrastructure solutions.
Previous Roles
Steven Zydek's professional journey includes serving as a Senior Database Administrator at Kohl's from 2014 to 2020. He also worked at Marquette University as an Application Database Administrator from 2006 to 2014 and at the University of Illinois as a Systems Manager from 1999 to 2006. Earlier in his career, he held roles such as Associate Technical Consultant at ITDS Intelicom Services (1998-1999) and Network Specialist / UNIX Programmer at Illinois State University (1996-1998).
Educational Background and Certifications
Steven Zydek achieved a Bachelor of Science in Applied Computer Science from Illinois State University (1994-1998). He also pursued advanced studies and training at Oracle University, achieving Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) status between 2006 and 2011. Additionally, he completed Oracle Training for Application Server Admin I/II in 2010.
Technical Expertise and Projects
Steven Zydek has a robust background in UNIX/Linux systems administration, working with IBM AIX, Red Hat Linux, and Sun Solaris. He has implemented Oracle Enterprise User Security with Oracle Unified Directory for managing LDAP authentication and authorization of database users via Active Directory. Additionally, he advocates for open source database projects, including ProxySQL, Orchestrator, and Galera. His proficiency extends to designing and building Infrastructure as Code using tools like GitHub, Jenkins, and Terraform. He is experienced with MySQL-oriented technologies such as InnoDB Cluster and Percona toolkit and is skilled in coding and scripting languages including Ansible, Awk, Bash, and Python.