Steven Cox
Founder at Tanzen LLC
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Cox is a founder and seasoned software architect with 14 years of experience building cloud-native, containerized systems and semantic knowledge platforms from research labs to large-scale enterprise environments. He has led federal research projects as a principal investigator, designed Kubernetes-based data science and robotic virtualization platforms, and driven networking and Gemini Cloud Assist architecture during senior roles at Google. A named inventor on three U.S. patents and an author of peer-reviewed work, he blends rigorous research credentials with practical delivery—reducing operational load and shipping resilient production services. Based in Chapel Hill, he has a long track record at RENCI designing semantic search, Jupyter/Keras AI workspaces, and clinical data science infrastructure that supported COVID-19 screening. Beyond infrastructure, he explores visual language action models to bridge motion planning and agentic workflows, reflecting a curiosity about combining ML with robotics and orchestration. Collected experience across academia, startups, and major tech firms gives him a rare ability to translate complex research into deployable, secure systems.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Fine Art majors, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Fine Art majors at Gordon College
Spanish
Stackoverflow
43reputation
3kreached
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Github Skills (152)
kubernetes-cluster10
aws10
bare-metal9
ansible9
knowledge-graph9
nlp9
translator9
high-availability9
semantic-web9
indexeddb9
owl9
semantic9
json-api9
query-language9
appstore8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
stevencox/stars
Oct 2015 - Oct 2017
DevOps deployment tools for Mesos, Marathon, Spark, Zeppelin, and others.
Contributions:58 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
devopsdeploymentdockersparkzeppelin
ResearchSoftwareInstitute/greendatatranslator
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:369 commits, 348 pushes, 10 tags in 1 month
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