Summary
Steve Knable is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 20 years of experience directing embedded C development and Agile teams for broadband and networking products. Currently VP of Software Engineering at Vecima Networks, he drives feature planning, field-issue resolution, and alignment of vCMTS and PON products with customer and industry requirements. His background spans hands-on principal engineering through senior management roles at ARRIS and CommScope, giving him deep technical credibility alongside people leadership. Known for mentoring distributed teams and cultivating pragmatic, collaborative Agile practices, he blends coaching with operational rigor. Based in Naperville, IL, he pairs a CS degree from Northern Illinois University with a track record of shipping production-grade embedded systems in carrier-grade environments. A detail not obvious from titles: he consistently bridges low-level C/embedded expertise with strategic product delivery across large-scale networking stacks.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Northern Illinois University