Ethan Childerhose
Chief Technology Officer at Steinmetz
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Childerhose is a CTO and founder based in San Francisco with a decade of engineering experience building cutting-edge ASICs, mixed-signal systems, and mechatronic products. He has held hands-on silicon and hardware roles at NVIDIA, Neuralink, and Tesla, contributing RTL for Tegra memory subsystems and digital/analog SoC work including FPGA emulation of Neuralink’s S1. As Co-Founder and CTO of YC-backed Steinmetz, he now combines deep IC design expertise with product-stage startup leadership. His background spans aerospace and robotics internships through to mechatronics R&D for automated cooking systems, reflecting a rare cross-domain fluency from chips to systems. Known for tackling hard problems, he pairs rigorous technical execution with a founder’s appetite for shipping complex, hardware-centric products.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
OSSD, OSSD at Iroqouis Ridge High SchoolBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
EthChil/Ray-Tracing
May 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
EthChil/BracketBot
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Code base for bracket bot
Contributions:45 commits, 4 PRs, 35 pushes in 7 months
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