Steve Pham is a software engineer based in Canada with five years of experience building reliable backend systems and test automation. Currently at IBM, he brings practical expertise from a past SDE internship at Amazon and hands-on roles spanning research, teaching assistance, and engineering co-ops. He contributed to the high-profile Open 3D Engine project, improving Android build reliability and test automation—demonstrating a knack for stabilizing complex multi-platform build pipelines. With dual degrees in Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Windsor, he combines software engineering rigor with hardware-aware problem solving. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented in test infrastructure and effective at turning flaky builds into reproducible workflows. Steve often focuses on the less-visible but critical work that keeps large codebases ship-ready.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Windsor
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) is an Apache 2.0-licensed multi-platform 3D engine that enables developers and content creators to build AAA games, cinema-quality 3D worlds, and high-fidelity simulations without any fees or commercial obligations.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:1642 reviews, 177 commits, 438 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on implementing and testing Android-related features and improving the build process. They addressed issues in the Android nightly unit tests by fixing the test launcher and test runner scripts. They also added steps to update the Android SDK and install the correct system images. Furthermore, they contributed to project settings, Android project generation, and created and improved unit tests related to Android deployments to enhance the build reliability.
A robotic fruit picking demo project for O3DE with ROS 2 Gem
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 9 months
ignitionroboticsros2demo-projectros-2
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