Steve Newman
Chairman And President at Golden Gate Institute for AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolSteve Newman is a veteran software entrepreneur and engineering leader with over a decade of executive and hands-on experience building large-scale data and collaboration systems. He co-founded Writely (the precursor to Google Docs), led Google's first cross-regional transactional database and unified file storage for Apps, and later founded Scalyr, which was acquired to power SentinelOne’s petabyte-scale data platform. As Chairman and President of the Golden Gate Institute for AI he now focuses on framing AI’s hardest questions, and he writes the AI analysis newsletter Second Thoughts. Steve blends deep systems architecture expertise with product intuition—shipping everything from realtime 3D games in the early 1990s to modern observability platforms. Notably, his career repeatedly bridges scrappy startup invention and enterprise-grade scale, a pattern visible from Spectre and Claris Home Page to Megastore and Scalyr. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford and a mathematics degree from the University of Michigan.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of MichiganLeaders In Tech Fellow, Leaders In Tech Fellow at Leaders In TechMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at StanfordThe Roeper School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
daemon10
agent9
cli9
logging9
command-line-tool9
client-library8
system-administration8
apple28
monitoring8
golang8
benchmark7
benchmarking7
eclipse6
dom-events6
google-chrome6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
scalyr/scalyr-logback
Apr 2014 - Sep 2017
Scalyr support for Logback logging
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 5 months
loggerloggingnettelogbackscalyr
scalyr/scalyr-tool
Feb 2014 - Apr 2018
Command-line tool for accessing Scalyr services
Contributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years 2 months
golangcommand-line-toolscalyrcli
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