Steve Lemke
Senior Developer Relationship Manager
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Lemke is a seasoned product and developer-relationship leader with over 30 years of experience designing, shipping, and supporting consumer electronics, firmware, and developer tools across Palm, HP, LG, and NVIDIA. He helped build and commercialize Palm OS and webOS—technologies that now power hundreds of millions of devices—and has transitioned those skills into automotive and simulation platforms like NVIDIA DRIVE Sim and AGL infotainment. A prolific inventor with 42 granted patents (many licensed by Apple, Google, and Qualcomm), he excels at diagnosing deep system integration and usability issues and assembling cross-functional teams for rapid prototypes. Steve pairs hands-on engineering roots (Macintosh firmware and early retail/QA) with developer evangelism, partner strategy, and university engagement to grow ecosystems and open-source projects. Less obvious: he became a licensed autonomous safety driver while managing acquisition-grade AV test vehicles, showing he blends technical leadership with practical, field-level validation. Based in California, he focuses on turning complex platform challenges into usable products and thriving developer communities.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., B.S. at UC Santa BarbaraContinuing Studies, Continuing Studies at Stanford University
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Github Skills (94)
run-script10
simulator10
apollo10
ros10
autonomous-driving10
operating-system10
webos10
robotics10
autonomous-vehicles10
api10
autonomy10
csharp10
baidu10
driver10
self-driving-car10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openwebos/build-desktop
Aug 2012 - Dec 2012
Build, install, and run scripts for the desktop build of Open webOS
Contributions:55 commits in 4 months
run-scriptwebos
openwebos/mojoservicelauncher
Aug 2012 - Sep 2013
Contributions:6 commits in 1 year
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