Steve Ross
Founder & Principal Consultant at Steve Ross and Associates
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Ross is a product leader with 18 years of experience helping enterprises get the most from their data while keeping it secure, governed, and cloud-ready. He has led cross-functional teams through full product lifecycles, managing 50+ releases across seven companies and delivering offerings now used by over a billion consumers and 100+ Fortune 500 firms. A hands-on technologist with roots in software development and data management, he drove major security, compliance and SaaS migrations at Alation and Cloudera and now leads enterprise readiness at Prophecy, including AI governance and automated security questionnaire responses. He pairs deep experience with practical integrations—such as a Databricks OAuth implementation—and a track record of closing regulated-industry deals by clearing security and integration barriers. Beyond product strategy, he contributes to developer tooling (notably iOS UI enhancements in an open-source RubyMotion project) and pursues applied data work in healthcare and sustainability. An adventurous problem-solver, he once installed the first email system in Syria and still enjoys off-the-beaten-path travel and playing electric violin.
18 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
BS EE, Computer Systems, BS EE, Computer Systems at Stanford University
Github Skills (4)
rubymotion10
uibarbuttonitem10
ios10
ui-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jamonholmgren/ProMotion
May 2013 - Mar 2015
ProMotion is a RubyMotion gem that makes iPhone development less like Objective-C and more like Ruby.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Steve contributed extensively to the ProMotion RubyMotion gem, primarily focusing on improving the library's UI capabilities for iOS development. Their work included implementing features for custom UIBarButtonItems, including support for system icons and image-based buttons. The user also added features for hiding and showing toolbars in UINavigationControllers and enabling custom labels in subclassed table cells. Additionally, they introduced new functionality for split screen navigation in the library.
iphoneobjective-crubyrubymotionboilerplate
sxross/MotionModel
Aug 2012 - Mar 2016
Simple Model and Validation Mixins for RubyMotion
Contributions:231 commits, 10 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 7 months
mixinsrubymotion
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