Steve Kistner
System Engineer at Versant Media
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Kistner is a seasoned system engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient broadcast and post-production infrastructures for mission-critical live sports and news events. He has led technical teams and emergency responses for marquee events including multiple Super Bowls, Final Fours, and the Olympics, specializing in Avid ecosystems, SAN/NAS storage, virtualization, cloud/edge storage, and disaster recovery to meet five-nines uptime targets. Known for turning chaotic live-production requirements into elegant, standardized workflows, he pairs vendor-agnostic technical depth with strong relationship management and support-strategy design. Steve has driven large-scale modernization projects—UHD/HDR, SMPTE ST 2110, virtualized server farms—and authored operational docs and automated reporting used in real-time event decision making. Based in New York, he blends field-proven crisis management with a product-design sensibility hinted at in his GitHub bio, and is completing advanced IT and communications degrees to formalize his long career of practical innovation.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Information Technology, Master of Science - MS Information Technology at Thomas Edison State UniversityTelecommunications Management, Telecommunications Management at Baylor University
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Github Skills (29)
beaker7
reporting-services6
hyperdrive6
compile5
browser5
electron4
css4
webrtc4
browserify4
react4
p2p4
lan3
peer-to-peer3
modular3
server3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
stephenkistner/stephenkistner.github.io
Feb 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:130 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
stephenkistner/herewithsteve
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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