Steve Skloot Email & Phone Number

Hendersonville, Tn, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Bringing open-platform AI solutions to the security industry with a team of exceptional engineers, both those I've had the pleasure of working with before at Cobalt Robotics, and a growing team of new faces I'm excited about. Speaking of, we're hiring!

Contract software engineering and mobile app development using SwiftUI and RealityKit.

Full-stack web applications for business operations- Sole engineer working with my business partner on a project that has grown to hundreds of users and paid customers- Dockerized containers on AWS and Digital Ocean with scripted deploys of Rails app for web requests and event processing- Integrated with Google Drive, Chrome, Hubspot, and Pipedrive

San Francisco, California, Us

- Architected and developed cloud services that communicate with the robot. - Designed and implemented logic on the robot that communicates with cloud services to determine which actions the robot should attempt to perform next.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Designed and deployed Motion Planning service, testing framework and discrete decision making logic using C++ with bazel

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Built an in-house routing engine from the ground up as part of a 2-3 person team.- Read cutting-edge papers on the subject matter and developed a C++ library from that knowledge- Delivered a full replacement for Lyft's third-party ETA calculation platform in less than a year- Grew the team to 10 people building features on top of our foundation

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Developed RESTful services with location-based supply/demand algorithm workers as part of a 134-person Engineering team.- Led and developed code for a team that builds and maintains services to:-- dynamically calculate pricing changes used to balance supply and demand in real time-- provide accurate ETAs between destination points for use in ride requests, location tracking, pricing calculations and dispatching decisions

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Developed RESTful services with location-based supply/demand algorithm workers as part of a 98-person Engineering team.- Build a service to manage dynamic dispatching decisions due to supply/demand algorithms- Lead a small team to build a dynamic supply lever system

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Developed RESTful services with location-based supply/demand algorithm workers as part of a 62-person Engineering team.- Worked on a dynamic pricing service that calculates location-based pricing based on changing supply/demand and other considerations- Created an experimentation framework around the ETAs that Lyft provides in the app- Created a micro-service to automatically report pick-ups and drop-offs for SFO compliance- Added a feature around driver hours to increase supply for the most important times of the day- Designed solutions for the Mission Control services as part of a 9-person functional team within a 53-person Engineering team.

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Developed new features and improved scalability of first generation software as part of a 9-person Engineering team.- Designed and developed a user segmentation engine using Java (Groovy), MySQL, Hive (Hadoop) and multithreaded Ruby.- Wrote RESTful endpoints to update user and tournament data on our mobile server from requests made by our admin and developer portals, as well as endpoints to serve data to our mobile clients written in Java (Groovy).- Created a datamart housing statistical data and wrote nightly MySQL scripts to generate statistics giving insight to our users.- Executed the development of an admin portal to manage users and games, built in Ruby on Rails as part of a 4-member team.

Boston, Ma, Us

Total Time: 2 years 6 monthsEngineered solutions to storefront, administrative and systems-level problems as a member of a 140-member Engineering team.- Rewrote Wayfair’s Checkout and Payment functionality from procedural spaghetti code to a rigorous MVC framework

Boston, Ma, Us

Engineered solutions to storefront, administrative and systems-level problems as a member of a 140-member Engineering team.- Wrote patch for PHP’s MSSQL driver, in C programming language, to address the problem of maintaining unique persistent connections to multiple databases on the same server.- Diagnosed problem with PHP’s MSSQL driver that frequently results in lost sockets when implemented on FreeBSD servers.- Rewrote the Ketama persistent hashing algorithm driver in C to allow it to properly run on FreeBSD servers accessing Redis- Developed an in-house content management system using PHP and JavaScript to allow non-technical writers to create unique design-heavy content pieces that integrate seamlessly with the Wayfair storefront and product database.- Created the Wayfair Blog as sole Software Engineer, with a focus on product and social integration.- Conceptualized and developed company’s first codebase testing library using Google’s PHP Selenium Webdriver bindings.- Converted Wayfair’s My Account section from ASP to PHP and refactored its implementation with a 6-member team

Served as a Research Assistant in the 9-member Computation Mechanics of Materials group to develop brain neuron models in C.- Modeled electromechanical coupling in brain neurons using a C implementation of the Finite Difference method.- Attended seminars and graduate-level courses in Computer Science at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.- Developed MPI-IO-based multi-threaded programs written in C on a Linux platform.- Programmed an extensive computational geometry library in C++ on a Linux platform.- Researched methods for modeling neural circuitry and applying mechanical stresses on neural tissue samples.- Gained understanding of Numerical Algorithms used for advanced computational problems, such as data searches.- Wrote numerous BASH scripts to perform tasks ranging from server maintenance to file parsing for SQL databases.

Medford, Massachusetts, Us

Innovated design methods of soft-bodied robots as a Research Assistant in the 7-member Autonomous Systems and Robotics Lab.- Redesigned a physics simulation utility based on the PhysX C++ libraries to accept new actuation mechanisms and inputs. - Developed a method for converting a simulated design found from a genetic algorithm into a realizable 3D CAD model.- Restructured the genetic algorithm written in MATLAB with improved constraints to ensure realizable models.- Manufactured a simulated model found with the modified genetic algorithm using the identified conversion process.- Designed and tested 3D CAD models using the SolidWorks and COSMOSWorks software packages.

Medford, Massachusetts, Us

Provided teaching assistance for Professor Abedian when he taught the undergraduate Fluid Mechanics course (ES 8).- Graded homework assignments and tests.- Attended classes to keep up to date notes on topics covered.- Held office hours two days per week.

Provided total IT support for the company, including web development, computer maintenance and network solutions. - Created and maintained a new website written in HTML with CSS and utilized a PHP-based online shopping cart solution. - Managed all aspects of information/technology systems such as software, hardware, and networking.- Interfaced with engineers and assisted with training courses.- Designed web interface elements using Abode Photoshop and GIMP.- Planned and ran the 2004 user conference in Seattle, WA, and continued to help with planning for all subsequent conferences from 2005 through 2008.

Provided total IT support for the company, including web development, computer maintenance and network solutions. - Created and maintained a new website written in HTML with CSS and utilized a PHP-based online shopping cart solution. - Managed all aspects of information/technology systems such as software, hardware, and networking.- Interfaced with engineers and assisted with training courses.- Designed web interface elements using Abode Photoshop and GIMP.- Planned and ran the 2004 user conference in Seattle, WA, and continued to help with planning for all subsequent conferences from 2005 through 2008.

Conducted lab research to further the experiments of Dr. Gary Ostroff.- Prepared yeast particle materials to use in lab experiments.- Performed MIC [Minimal Inhibitory Concentration] assays.- Wrote reports.- Maintained Homogenizer.

Worcester, Massachusetts, Us

- Monitored the Pro/Engineer Computer Aided Design (CAD) lab.- Assisted users with technical questions concerning the Pro/Engineer Computer Aided Design software package.

Ms, Mechanical Engineering, Design, Robotics

Bs, Mechanical Engineering: Design Concentration (Major), American History (Minor)