Oliver Steele
Graduate Student
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
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Top SchoolOliver Steele is a seasoned software engineer and educator with 20+ years of experience spanning systems software, embedded and web products, and applied machine learning research. He has held senior technical and leadership roles at Apple, Nest, and AOL, co-founded and advised startups (including an exit), and has taught computing and design at institutions like Olin College and NYU Shanghai. Equally comfortable writing compilers, building devops and backend systems, or shipping JavaScript and Python applications, he is also the author of enduring open-source work such as PyWordNet and OpenLaszlo. Now a graduate student studying machine learning in Shenzhen while continuing independent research and advisory work, he blends deep systems craftsmanship with linguistic and NLP roots. An invited speaker at major conferences and a long-time contributor to community documentation projects (notably a Final Cut Pro cheatsheet among Kapeli’s collection), he brings a rare mix of academic curiosity, product experience, and hands-on engineering.
20 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Linguistics, B.S., Linguistics at UNC-CHABD, Linguistics, ABD, Linguistics at University of Massachusetts AmherstABD, Computer Science, ABD, Computer Science at Brandeis University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
keyboard-shortcuts10
documentation10
shortcuts10
tokenize6
lexical-analysis6
javascript6
python6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Kapeli/cheatsheets
Oct 2018 - Apr 2020
Collection of Dash cheat sheets
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to the `kapeli/cheatsheets` repository by adding and updating cheat sheets for various applications. Their work involved creating documentation, and formatting keyboard shortcuts, and correcting existing entries, with the most significant contribution being the creation of a comprehensive cheat sheet for Final Cut Pro. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of formatting and layout for cheat sheets, ensuring information was presented clearly.
plotly-dashdashcheat-sheetssheets
osteele/ffmachine
Aug 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:277 commits in 1 month
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