Oliver Steele

Software engineer, researcher, and educator building tools for learning, creativity, and understanding complex systems.

Currently a graduate student at Tsinghua SIGS. Previous work includes Apple, Nest, NYU Shanghai, and Olin College.

Selected Work

Industry

Initial server software and engineering leadership for the connected home product.

Legacy impact

Technical leadership for Apple's Common Lisp and Smalltalk-inspired language and development environment.

Open-source infrastructure

A terminal-native control plane for placing and running GPU research jobs across workstations, shared servers, and cloud rentals.

Language models, interpretability, uncertainty, and systems performance.

Applications, developer tools, libraries, and research infrastructure.

Courses, project-based curricula, technical notes, and learning tools.

Photography, interactive systems, physical computing, and making.

I'm always up for collaborations in creative tools, education, and applied AI.