Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Website www.gracenote.com LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
As Gracenote’s Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Steve is responsible for leading the Gracenote engineering teams and developing scalable platforms and state-of-the-art technologies.
In 1995, Steve co-developed the Compact Disc Database (CDDB) to display information about the CDs being played. CDDB represented one of the first crowd-sourced
services, relying on millions of users from around the globe to populate the database with music information. The CDDB service became the foundation of Gracenote and helped usher in Apple iTunes and the first iPod.
Prior to Gracenote, Steve led development teams at various Silicon Valley companies focusing on fault tolerance, performance and operating system development. He spent several years at Stratus Computer where he designed and developed disk I/O subsystems.
Steve received BS degrees in Math and Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and is a World Technology Network fellow.
