Steven Kneiser
Research Engineer at Broccoli
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Kneiser is a research engineer with 13 years of experience who builds compiler and kernel tooling to make FPGAs and low-power chips more accessible and productive. Currently at Broccoli he extends hardware compilers with higher-level primitives and automates chip design to shrink development time and power budgets, while also recruiting and translating research for nontechnical stakeholders. As an independent consultant he prototypes AI/ML, embedded, and web solutions for small businesses, blending rapid prototyping with market and co-evolution research. His early work at Qualcomm and open-source automation projects (including a GitHub activity commit-bot) reflect a pragmatic focus on tooling, performance optimization, and developer productivity. Based in Bloomington, IN, he pairs systems-level expertise with sales and talent experience to drive semiconductor and advanced manufacturing adoption in the Midwest.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at University Liggett SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Michigan State University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
47reputation
800reached
6answers
0questions
Github Skills (17)
git10
github-ci10
bots10
bash10
automation10
googlebot10
automations10
shell10
githubaction-workflow10
cron9
nlp6
command-line6
github6
python6
regex6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
theshteves/commit-bot
Dec 2014 - Jan 2023
Automatically generates GitHub activity
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 1299 commits, 5 PRs in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily focused on automating and managing a bot, likely for generating GitHub activity. They wrote a bash script (`bot.sh`) to interact with the Git repository. Their commits include changes to the script for tasks like adding output, committing changes, and pushing to the repository. The user also addressed OS-specific pathing and re-activated the bot after disabling it.
github-activitybotcontributions-calendarcontributions-chartbash
theshteves/theshteves
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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