Steve Arnold

Santa Barbara, California Area United States

Principal Scientist / Open Source Evangelist @ VCT Labs

Technology / Software / Internet

Dad/educator/open-source science-geek with technical degrees, specializing in open source development, including tools for earth and atmospheric sciences (data acquisition, analysis and modeling, GIS), IV&V, risk and hazard assessment, and associated data systems/software. User of, and contributor to, free software, GNU/Linux, OpenEmbedded, and Gentoo. 25+ years supporting technical customers, 20+ years with GNU/Linux and open source, 10 years as Gentoo Linux developer, approaching 2000 hours classroom/training experience. Specialties: GNU/Linux and free software development tools & process (eg, Trac, Git/SVN, Jenkins, toolchains & SDKs), Gentoo/Debian/Ubuntu & OpenEmbedded; range safe...