Stephen Kunath
Senior Software Engineer at Probity Inc.
Newport, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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SeniorStephen Kunath is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building production systems in machine translation, information extraction, search, speech and video processing, and cross-language information retrieval. Based in Newport, Kentucky, he currently leads speech processing research and engineering at Probity Inc., after roles spanning research scientist to director-level positions where he combined hands-on development with data quality and operations leadership. His background includes deep NLP and computational linguistics work for defense and commercial projects, and he has practical experience modernizing codebases—evidenced by reorganizing and extending the Cython back-end of the well-known Gambit game theory package. Colleagues rely on him for bridging research and production: turning novel algorithms into testable, maintainable systems. He brings a rare mix of algorithmic expertise and pragmatic engineering that accelerates deployment of language and multimodal processing features.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
python10
cython10
game-theory10
unit-testing8
cprogramming-language7
c-language7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gambitproject/gambit
Jul 2011 - Aug 2011
Gambit: The package for computation in game theory
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the back-end of the Gambit project, focusing on the Cython interface. They reorganized the Cython interface into multiple files, improving maintainability and code structure. The user implemented indexing models for players, outcomes, and strategies, adding functionality for adding strategies and players. Additionally, the user updated the test suite to validate new features and functionality.
gambitgame-theorygame-theory-algorithmsgame-theory-framework
skunath/mTree
Jun 2018 - Mar 2022
Computational Experimental Economics Platform
Contributions:54 pushes, 2 branches, 3 issues in 3 years 10 months
experimental-economicscomputationaleconomics
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