Steve Severance
Software Engineer at Carta
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Severance is a seasoned software engineer and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building production ML systems and cloud-native products across healthcare, finance, real estate, and e-commerce. Currently at Carta he leads expansion into new verticals and has launched several product lines including automated SAFEs, subscription documents, and advanced distributions. Previously as CTO of Sonia he built an end-to-end ASR and NLP stack—spanning VAD, diarization, speaker ID, and transformer-based summarization—demonstrating deep hands-on ML engineering and team-building. His background includes architecting trading and alternative-data platforms, migrating legacy systems to AWS, and designing novel auction mechanisms for blockchain derivatives. Based in Austin, he blends product-focused execution with research-level ML design, and has a track record of turning complex domain problems into deployable, revenue-driving systems. An economist by training, he brings a data-driven, cross-disciplinary perspective to product and engineering decisions.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Economics Economics, Economics Economics at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (180)
parallel10
python10
deep-learning10
gpu10
ray10
optimization10
client-library10
ml10
intellij-plugin10
neural-network10
data-science10
reinforcement-learning10
tensorflow10
pytorch10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alphaHeavy/google-url
Jan 2013 - Jan 2017
Contributions:35 commits, 7 pushes in 4 years
alphaHeavy/hadoop-xz
Feb 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:3 pushes in 5 years 6 months
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