Ron Schnell
Distinguished Technology Fellow at Keystone AI
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolRon Schnell is a Distinguished Technology Fellow and serial technology entrepreneur with roots in kernel development and a career that spans Bell Labs, Sun, IBM and MIT, where he began programming on punch cards in 1975. He has led engineering teams and organizations as a C-level and VP executive, run a strategic consulting firm, and managed complex, high-stakes programs such as the court-ordered Technical Committee overseeing Microsoft compliance. A prolific systems programmer and device-driver author who created the widely distributed game Dunnet, Ron combines deep low-level expertise (30+ languages and UNIX kernel work) with experience in product, security, and academic instruction as an adjunct professor. He advises universities and startups, lectures regularly, and has guided technology strategy at multinational firms and think tanks. Less obvious: his career threads together early phone-phreaking and mischievous curiosity with formal research collaborations alongside figures like David Korn and Richard Stallman, now being distilled into a memoir of pivotal, often uncanny moments in computing. Based in Fort Lauderdale, he continues to consult, teach, and innovate at the intersection of systems engineering and organizational leadership.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Syracuse University
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Github Skills (30)
padding8
snapshots8
zeplin8
coinbase7
aquamacs7
python-client7
wrapper7
gdax-api6
elisp6
gnu6
exchange6
foursquare6
coinbase-api6
magit6
citation5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
Quogic/DunnetPredecessor
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
dkogan/emacs-snapshot
Jun 2014 - Nov 2019
Tree for GNU Emacs Debian snapshots
Contributions:3 commits in 5 years 5 months
gnu-emacsgnuemacssnapshotszeplin
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