Steven Deobald
Janitor at Pariyatti
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Deobald is a multidisciplinary software leader with 16 years of experience combining product, engineering, and cooperative organizational design. He has founded and scaled employee-owned ventures like Nilenso Software and led product and engineering efforts on next-gen systems such as Endatabas and XTDB, blending deep technical oversight with fundraising and go-to-market work. Currently stewarding Pariyatti's open-source digital library, he manages volunteer contributors while designing backend systems and mobile apps for long-term preservation. A conservationist and off-grid builder who practices Vipassana and collects retro computing curiosities, he brings an unusual mix of systems thinking and human-centered stewardship to tech projects. Comfortable across databases, distributed systems, and UX, he excels at reframing corporate structures to align incentives and sustain open-source ecosystems. Based in Canada, he pairs hands-on technical craft with a long-termist perspective evident in both software and community conservation work.
16 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Regina
Stackoverflow
21reputation
92reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (195)
kaitai-struct10
postgresql10
mobile-development10
windows10
orientdb10
graph-database10
duckdb10
memgraph10
bitemporal10
datalog10
app-framework10
sql10
skia10
cql10
dart10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
endatabas/endb-book
Apr 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:226 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
deobald/notes
Jul 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:346 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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