Steven Broaddus

Computer Engineer | Student | Developer



About me

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Hello World! 👋🏻 Thank you for visiting!

Making this website was definitely easier than maintaining a LinkedIn profile.

Check out my GitHub and my projects!


Employment:

Looking for full-time positions for May 2026.

Interests

  • Self-Hosting Everything 🌐
  • Data Hoarding
    • 28 TB of Linux ISOs
    • Providing data and routes for the world 🙌
  • Electricity ⚡ (It's actually magic)
  • Decentralized Computing
  • Distributed Computing
  • Graphics and modeling
    • 3D Animation (Maya / Blender)
    • Computer Vision (e.g. CNNs)
  • The Gym (i.e. Adult Playground)
  • DIY (This website was made BEFORE ChatGPT)

Skills

  • Programming
    • Python 🙌 (and anything else)
    • REST API Development
    • GUI Design with Qt
    • Automated Test Development
  • Machine Learning
    • Exploratory Data Analysis
    • Feature Development
    • Transformers (LLMs)
    • All the Classical Models
    • Statistical Analysis
  • Server Administration
    • Linux Everyday
    • Self-Hosting Services
    • ZFS File System
    • CI/CD Pipelines (GH Actions)
    • Automated Backups (Restic / ZFS)
    • Best Practices
    • VMs / Hyper-V (from Windows times)
  • Enterprise Infrastructure
    • Docker / Kubernetes
    • AWS S3
    • Kafka / Splunk
    • Scalability & Maintainability
  • Hardware
    • Wifi Controllers & Home Assistant
    • Messing with lower gauge wires now 👀
    • Smart Home in progress
    • In another life I was an electrician
  • and more...
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Education

The Ohio State University

Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering

Expected Graduation: May 2026 | GPA (4.00 scale): 4.00

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering

Graduated: May 2025 | GPA (4.00 scale): 3.95

Honors Program in the College of Engineering

Currently a proud full-time buckeye at The™ Ohio State University.


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Experience

  • Nationwide

    NCACI Graduate Research Associate

    May 2025 - Current | Columbus, OH

    Developing automated unit and regression testing frameworks for machine- learning telematics pipelines with complex enterprise infrastructure including Kafka/AWS while adhering to industry best practices and standards.

  • The Ohio State University

    Undergraduate Researcher at tOSU

    May 2024 - May 2025 | Kirtland AFB, NM

    Researched the development and integration of ML into a new class of wearable coils that capture joint kinematics (flexion/rotation) without impeding natural movement. Work is alongside the Wearable and Implantable Technologies Research Group at OSU under the mentorship of Dr. Asimina Kiourti.

    Investigated how machine learning can be applied to improve the accuracy and ease of use of the wearable coils in addition to working with the group to develop the equipment for future use.

  • AFRL Scholars Program

    AFRL Scholars Program Intern

    September 2023 - April 2024 | Kirtland AFB, NM

    Project Title: Associated Attack Surfaces and Vulnerabilities of Space Vehicle Autonomous Functions
    Project Description: Surveyed cyber-attacks against terrestrial systems with autonomous capabilities to determine probable vulnerabilities for space systems with similar capabilities

  • AFRL Scholars Program

    AFRL Scholars Program Intern

    May 2023 - Aug 2023 | Kirtland AFB, NM

    Project Title: Trusted Platform Module for Embedded Systems
    Project Description: Investigated the application of a commercial trusted platform module (TPM) for hardening an embedded computing system. Developed software to interface with the TPM and integrate its capabilities into the existing embedded software.

  • AES Restaurant Group, LLC

    Arby's Team Member

    Mar 2021 - Jul 2021 | Dayton, OH

    I worked part-time as an Arby's Team Member for AES Restaurant Group, LLC. The responsibilities of this position included preparing made-to-order food, taking orders, cleaning the restaurant, and providing respectful and effective customer service. This position taught me the importance of quality customer service and the value of efficiently completing customer requests without issue.

  • Kettering Fairmont High School

    IT Network Administrator Assistant Volunteer

    Sept 2020 - May 2021 | Dayton, OH

    I volunteered to assist supporting a local network for my IT career pathway at Kettering Fairmont High School. In this position I diagnosed and repaired issues with existing network access points and network equipment. I also installed and configured new networking equipment including Cisco switches/routers and servers running Windows Server.




Projects

Neural-Navigator

This project (see the project report, repo, and demo video) focused on the development of a Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent using Unity's ML-Agents Toolkit to drive a 3D car with realistic physics through a variety of tracks.

This goal of this project was to experiment with RL in Unity to better understand how the pipeline works and what is important for inputs and improved performance. Curriculum training was also explored to improve the agent's ability to generalize across different tracks. The agent ended up being able to navigate really well, which was especially impressive given the difficulty of some of the courses (I even struggled).

8/2024 - 12/2024

Visual Prompt-Metric Alignment

This project (see the project report and repo) investigated the relationship between image quality metrics from the PyTorch Toolbox for Image Quality Assessment and prompts used to generate AI images. This included unsupervised and supervised training pipelines for classical and deep-learning models, with different approaches for featurizing the text including embeddings via BERT/KeyBERT with vectorization via TF-IDF.

The goal behind this was to establish an understanding of how perceived quality can be enhanced through the manipulation of prompts. This pipeline can also be established for non-AI generated images via related text and tags to enhance the search for novel and high-quality media.

1/2025 - 5/2025

Homelab

I currently host an ecosystem of devices and services, primarily through my desktop PC. This includes a large selection of Docker containers and other services. The primary purpose is to facilitate my management and never-ending search for novel & useful information. I currently maintain: 3.5TB of hundreds of thousands of files and billions of SQL records. 28TB total storage space to account for best practice redundancy & full backups.

Future work includes migrating to a rack-based server for improved scalability. The main bottleneck for scale today is the disk space. For performance and scaling, it is best practice to purchase many HDDs and take advantage of striping for performance, but that requires a lot of SATA disk slots.

Updated 10/2025

FEH Robot Project

Designed, developed, and programmed a robot in C++ using Ohio State's Proteus microcontroller alongside three other engineers. The robot's purpose was to maneuver through a course performing different tasks, such as flipping a lever or pressing a button.

This project included the design of a WordPress website and documentation for the development and design process. At the end of the project, a final competition against 56 other groups of honors engineering students determined what design most effectively completed the tasks.

1/2022 - 5/2022

FEH Game Dev. Project

Developed a video game in C++ using Ohio State's Proteus microcontroller simulator in a group with one other computer engineer. The simulator used to develop the game acted as a tool to draw shapes in a window, all logic was programmed manually for the game.

This game was designed to be a maze game where the user would drag a block using the mouse through a 2D maze. If the block touched any walls, it would reset the level. This project concluded in a competition where other peers would vote on which game was most fun, and this game won the "Best Game" award against 10 other honors engineering student groups.

8/2021 - 12/2021

Steven Broaddus

Computer Engineer | Student | Developer

Personal Website

Designed and developed a personal website that reflects my skills and attributes. This website was created from scratch using pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with Bootstrap 5 as a framework.

By not basing this website off of a template, many of the challenges that hindered development are approached in a unique and creative way that required me to problem solve. Please feel free to look over the code for this website to see how the structure is designed and implemented.

10/2022 - 12/2022




Contact

Email me at Steven.Broaddus220@gmail.com

Find my Github at https://github.com/SBroaddus220

Connect with me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-broaddus