Summary
Steve Slevinski is a data-focused systems engineer and SignWriting evangelist with 14 years of experience building reliable data pipelines, custom encodings, and automated processing for linguistics, clinical research, and enterprise systems. He founded and grew SignPuddle into a multi-country dataset of millions of signs, personally scripting large-scale image and data transformations and designing formats that enabled wide interoperability. Currently he hosts The SignWriting Stream and manages neuroscience and clinical trial data at the University of Iowa Health Care, bridging community education with rigorous data integrity. Known for pragmatic automation and careful data stewardship, he pairs deep technical tooling (bash, Python, Linux) with experience managing international collaborations, funding, and IP constraints. An active member of the sign language community and a repeat Sutton SignWriting encoder, he brings domain passion to technically complex, people-centered projects.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, computer science applied, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, computer science applied at Grove City College