Steve Rainwater
Principal Engineer Manager at National Robotics Education Foundation (NREF)
Irving, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorSteve Rainwater is a Principal Engineer Manager with nearly three decades of hands-on experience building web applications, embedded systems, and robotics software, now leading systems software for mission-critical P25 public-safety networks at EF Johnson Technologies. A long-time FOSS advocate and contributor, he has patched core projects from Apache and MediaWiki to Linux and libxml2, and specializes in web stacks using GNU/Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL/MySQL and WordPress. He blends small-business entrepreneurship—running a web hosting and Internet software firm for 26 years—with enterprise engineering, making him comfortable from startup scrappiness to regimented product delivery. An active robotics educator and judge, he sits on the National Robotics Education Foundation advisory board and writes widely on robots and AI. Outside engineering he is a published photographer, vintage-camera collector, and co-founder of Dallas Makerspace and Camera-Wiki.org, reflecting a practical maker’s mindset that informs his technical leadership.
19 years of coding experience
Github Skills (91)
cryptocurrency10
p2p10
staging10
bitcoin10
docker10
cryptography10
mastodon9
bitcoin-core9
openwrt9
luci9
csharp9
activitypub8
dotnet8
exchange8
pixelfed8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
steevithak/mod_virgule
Nov 2006 - May 2011
Contributions:146 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
steevithak/opensim
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
This is a github mirror of the opensim git repository (synced every 10 minutes). The cannonical master is on http://opensimulator.org/viewgit
Contributions:3 pushes in 13 days
git-repositoryrustopensimulatormastergithub-mirror
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