Steve Conklin

About Steve Conklin

I\'ve built systems at every layer of the stack - from hardware design and embedded firmware through real-time applications, Linux kernel development, PaaS infrastructure, DevOps, and observability.This depth gives me something rare: the ability to diagnose problems and architect solutions with a true understanding of what\'s happening at every level, from the silicon up through the platform and into production.Whether it\'s designing a board, writing a device driver, building a deployment pipeline, or instrumenting a distributed system for observability, I bring the same discipline: make it work, make it reliable, make it maintainable, make it observable.I\'m looking for my next opportunity - I\'m at my best when solving problems that cross boundaries — hardware and software, customer needs and services, infrastructure and application, development and operations.

Experience

1. Chief Financial Officer

   Open Research Institute, Inc

   Feb 2020 — Present

   I am the volunteer CFO of this nonprofit institute

Education

• The University of Alabama in Huntsville

  BSEE, Electrical Engineering, microprocessor design

Skills

• Troubleshooting
• Linux Kernel
• Device Drivers
• Embedded Systems
• Kernel
• Linux
• Python
• Open Source Software
• C
• Open Source
• Operating Systems
• Ubuntu
• Debian
• Git
• Hardware
• Amateur Radio
• Arduino
• Microcontrollers
• Electrical Engineering
• Arm
• Software Development
• Software Design
• Embedded Linux
• Embedded Software
• Firmware
• Distributed Systems
• Tcp/Ip
• Shell Scripting
• High Availability
• Embedded Development