Steve Kelly
Software Engineer at Teradyne
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Kelly is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building real-time systems at the bits→atoms boundary, from FPGA and ASIC motion controllers to full-stack tooling for metal 3D printing and robotics. He has shipped low-level motion control and commutation algorithms, designed embedded drivers and Linux kernel patches (including a notable PCIe P2P DMA patch for Nvidia), and led CI/CD and simulation frameworks that enabled SIL/HWIL testing and a 35% throughput improvement in production printers. Comfortable across Python, C/C++, Verilog, Julia, and C#, he pairs hardware-near engineering with higher-level geometry processing and automated build systems (extensive BinaryBuilder/Yggdrasil and Julia ecosystem contributions). Steve’s work is characterized by bridging open-source toolchains and industrial deployments—he even drove an open-source ASIC project selected for SkyWater fabrication—making him a pragmatic engineer who moves research-grade designs into reliable, testable products.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematical Sciences, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematical Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMaster of Science (M.S.) Technology Management - Electrical and Mechanical, Master of Science (M.S.) Technology Management - Electrical and Mechanical at Farmingdale State CollegeMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (27)
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llvm10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Collection of builder repositories for BinaryBuilder.jl
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:41 reviews, 35 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Steve's commits primarily focus on creating build recipes and build scripts for various software packages within the `yggdrasil` repository. They are involved in setting up and configuring automated builds for software projects, including Yosys, Prjtrellis, Icestorm, IVerilog, Netgen, libusb, librtlsdr, SoapyRTLSDR, USRPHardwareDriver, SoapyUHD, libaio, libiio, libad9361_iio, SoapyPlutoSDR, pciutils, XyceWrapper, SoapyLoopback, soapyMultiSDR, and dlcfn-win32. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of build systems and package management within the context of building binary packages and related toolchains. Their contributions cover a broad range of projects in the binarybuilder context.
repositoriesbinarybuildermonorepobuilderjulia
JuliaLang/julia
Mar 2014 - Jan 2023
The Julia Programming Language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 23 commits, 33 PRs in 9 years
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the Julia programming language repository by modifying and adding documentation, as well as improving the testing framework. Their work included adding documentation for the `symlink` and `readall` functions, enhancing the `@test` macro to evaluate comparison expressions, and modifying the exception handling logic. They also adapted the codebase to align with the LLVM 3.7 changes and updated the `SystemError` initialization.
sciencejulia-languagemachine-learningjulialangpetsc
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