Primary Job Title Technical Director Primary Organization 
Altar Virtual Technologies
Gender Male
Steve is a lifelong software developer and entrepreneur, self-taught in programming, graphics engineering, applied mathematics, and business, with deep expertise in technological and economic systems. His long-standing passions are gameplay and game design. He briefly attended the Plan II Honors program at UT Austin in the 90s before dropping out
to found Lucena Systems, a small Silicon Valley consultancy he ran for 15 years. There he focused on application development before re-focusing Lucena and his personal efforts on game engine research, design, and understanding how this technology could be applied beyond entertainment applications. Most recently, he developed highly-efficient game-optimized math, physics, and platform abstraction libraries as well as a completed engine before co-founding Altar in 2016. Hobby-wise, Steve is a contributor to various game development communities. He has only completed 1200 of 5000 games in his Steam library, and can very occasionally be found outside.
