Steve Root
Technical Director at GE Appliances, a Haier company
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Root is a Technical Director and embedded systems architect with over two decades designing hardware and firmware for appliance controls, aerospace experiments, and breath-alcohol instruments. He has led embedded software teams at GE/GE Appliances, driving rigorous SRS/SDD, FMEA, and end-to-end testing practices across multiple product lines while consulting on advanced firmware initiatives. Hands-on in low-level languages, RTOS (VxWorks, SuperTask), and x86/microcontroller platforms, he pairs deep technical troubleshooting with program-level delivery and mentoring. Notably, he contributed QA and test automation to the widely used Exercism C track, reflecting ongoing engagement with community tooling and test quality. Based in Louisville, KY, he is known for rapidly integrating into existing teams, optimizing calibration and performance (reducing calibration times by up to 75% in past projects), and cultivating energized, growth-focused engineering cultures.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at University of Louisville
Github Skills (9)
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unit-testing10
c1110
test-automation10
co9
cc9
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/c
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Exercism exercises in C.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 12 PRs, 24 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying the test code. Their commits demonstrate a focus on testing specific exercises within the C language. They updated existing test code, which suggests an active role in ensuring the correctness and functionality of the exercise solutions. They also made changes to the test vendor files, indicating involvement in the test framework itself.
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