Oliver Steele Email & Phone Number

Shanghai, China

Shanghai, China

Shanghai City, China

Shanghai, China

Needham, Massachusetts

* Developed ENGR 3599A “Hacking the Library”. Used community software as a platform for learning topics in professional software engineering.* Taught or co-taught ENGR 3520 “Software Design”, four semesters.* Launched olin.build: support and infrastructure for student and community projects * SCOPE (Senior Capstone) advisor AY16-17* SCOPE Content Matter Expert (technical advisor) AY17-18* “Olin Design Principles” task force

Needham, Ma

San Francisco Bay Area

Boston

Palo Alto

Product management for mobile web innovation; directed business, design, and engineering functions.

Palo Alto

Nest Labs is the creator of the Nest Learning Thermostat, which learns human behaviors and preferences, automatically adjusting the temperature to save energy and money.* Built the initial back end services used for Series A funding and the first six months of client development.* Directed Dev Ops* Directed Technical Operations* Managed and built an ETL system* Managed the team that created the Energy Report

Select projects:* The client-side data model and sync mechanism for Laszlo Webtop Calendar* Seating map creation pipeline and client-side UI for FanSnap* EEG-directed computer-controlled patient avatar* Portions of a gestural interface and UI

StyleCart was a visual shopping cart that allows users to arrange product photography, paper-doll style, on a web page.* Technical founder* Created the architecture, server, and client* Drafted the omnibus patent application that covers the core inventions.

Dotted Pair developed an innovative retail catalog browsing engine.* Designed and implemented the initial version client and the server-side layout engine functionality* Co-developed the algorithms and architecture which form the core IP of the company* Co-authored the 70-page provisional patent

* Founded the Boston office; recruited the East Coast product development team.* Presented the company and technology at industry conferences.* Managed the IBM development relationship, leading to the release of the IDE4Laszlo and Faces for Laszlo Eclipse plugins, and the inclusion of the OpenLaszlo platform in the IBM Enterprise Technology Tool Kit.* Acting VP Engineering* Designed the Laszlo XML interface description language.* Launched and oversaw the OpenLaszlo open source project.* Lead the documentation effort; created and oversaw the documentation tool chain.* Implemented the XML and JavaScript compilers.* Created several inventions which became the company’s core IP.

AlphaMask developed a 2D graphics library. In 2001, AlphaMask was acquired by OpenWave for use in its handset browser.* Defined the product suite* Created SVG and SMIL interpreters and transcoders* Created XML, server-side imaging, and image transcoding products.* Partner in sales calls and acquisition negotiations

Lexeme (later LingoMotors) created a knowledge extraction system that parsed natural language into structured semantic structures, and used these structures to implement natural- language query response and description categorizations.* Extended the Lexeme chart parser with extended regular expression rules over lexical, syntactic, semantic predicates* Created a graphical workbench for linguists to edit and test these patterns* Created disambiguation algorithms for prioritizing parses based on lexical frequency* Extended the Smalltalk web server with session management facilities and support for embedded Smalltalk blocks* Created unit-testing, automated error recovery, and email notification daemons for the server

Boston, Ma

Method created a realtime online distributed game engine.* Lead development team through several projects; created and refined CMM* Created language parser, generator, and rule system for non-player characters.* Developed first(?) Java-embedded Scheme interpreter

* Lead the team that developed the Apple Dylan IDE.* Evangelized the product within the company and to the executive team.* Contributed to the design of the Dylan programming language.

Developer of the Quickdraw GX (“Skia”) graphics and geometry engine.* Worked on architecture, particularly caching* Implemented C-based polyfill that was competitive with assembly-based on Classic Quickdraw implementation* Implemented Vector-based pattern fill* Implemented fast bitmap rotation* Implemented system integration with window manager

Game programmer; worked on the awarding-winning game "Pogo Joe" for the Commodore 64, also TRS-80 and Atari 800 games.

B.S., Linguistics

Abd, Computer Science

Abd, Linguistics