Steve Arnold
Principal Scientist at Gentoo Linux Foundation
Santa Maria, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Arnold is a Principal Scientist and seasoned open-source engineer with 22 years of technical experience and 25+ years supporting technical customers, specializing in earth and atmospheric science tools, IV&V, risk and hazard assessment, and data systems. Based in Santa Maria, CA, he combines deep GNU/Linux expertise—20+ years with open source and a decade as a Gentoo developer—with practical systems engineering and test & evaluation for range meteorology and flight safety. A long-time maintainer of Ada toolchains and embedded packages for Gentoo and an OpenEmbedded contributor, he blends low-level toolchain work with applied modeling and GIS workflows. An experienced educator with nearly 2,000 hours of classroom training, he also drives open-source outreach and developer mentoring while leading engineering and business development at VCT Labs. Notably, he’s been building operating systems since 1991 and channels that DIY, systems-first mindset into robust, auditable scientific software.
22 years of coding experience
GE Cert, GE Cert at Grossmont CollegeSan Diego State University
English
Github Skills (200)
data-stream10
security-automation10
cffi10
mjpg-streamer10
beagleboard10
visual-studio10
v4l210
linter10
cx-freeze10
cpp10
python-scripts10
lto10
robotics10
ipc10
json10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
VCTLabs/MIL-STD-498
Feb 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
sarnold/grs-specs
Feb 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:80 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 7 months
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