Michael Steed
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Steed is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building and scaling backend systems for HPC, enterprise automation, and embedded platforms. He has led backend teams and delivered production-grade features across SaltStack, VMware, Broadcom, and most recently with SchedMD/NVIDIA on Slurm, demonstrating deep expertise in schedulers, distributed systems, and performance-sensitive C/C++ and Python software. Michael combines hands-on kernel and driver work from earlier roles with cloud and enterprise SaaS experience, routinely diagnosing complex production issues for high-performance computing customers. An active open-source contributor, he has made notable improvements to the popular fish shell—adding vi "bigword" bindings and PCRE-aware string handling—showing attention to user-facing tooling and compatibility subtleties. Based in Lynchburg, VA, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with a pragmatic, troubleshooting-first approach that shines in customer-facing support and scalable backend design. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who comfortably moves between low-level systems code and large-scale service integration.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Portuguese
Github Skills (7)
command-line-interface10
rust10
shell10
pcre10
terminal-application9
terminal-emulator9
regular-expression9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fish-shell/fish-shell
May 2015 - Apr 2016
The user-friendly command line shell.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 54 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael implemented and modified features related to the `fish-shell`'s command-line functionality. Their contributions included introducing "bigword" vi key bindings, which involved adding new functions and modifying existing key bindings to operate on "bigwords". The user also integrated and updated the "string" builtin, supporting string manipulation and PCRE-based regular expressions, and addressed compatibility issues with PCRE2, ensuring correct buffer handling.
bashterminalfishcommand-lineshell
msteed/fish-shell
May 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:86 pushes, 29 branches, 2 comments in 1 year 6 months
bashterminalcommand-lineshelluser-friendly
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