My name is Stephen Schieberl. My life has been driven by curiosity for adventure, technology, music, and art. I am a family man, creative technologist, wilderness athlete, electronic musician, and local community volunteer living in the forest outside of Portland, Oregon.

About This Web Site

This site is where I journal some of the things I've made and done, and the events which lead me to make and do this stuff. The main feed is a relevant, yet non-comprehensive, timeline of my life in reverse chronological order. Start at the bottom for the full journey, or the top for the most recent entries. As you scroll, the map in the background will update to mark where that journal entry took place.

About Me

Professionally, my strength is in creative and novel uses of emerging technology, balanced with production-grade, efficient, stable engineering. I'm approaching forty years of coding experience (holy crap!) which has spanned video games (custom engines, Unreal, Unity, and various web frameworks), full stack web, robotics, rendering pipelines, VR, projection mapping, generative graphics and audio, networking at all levels, natural interfaces, AI/ML (everything from designing models in calculus to modern prompt engineering, safety/alignment, moderation, large-context systems, etc), and more.

These days, I do most of my native work in C++ with shader code (GLSL and/or HLSL) or Unreal, and bare-metal networking code in C++. For web, I gravitate towards node with Typescript, using React on the front-end. And there always seems to be some Python gluing things together in my projects. For non-native projects, I combine an agent-assisted pipeline with decades of experience to turn things around quickly without sacrificing quality, stability, or performance.

I produce music as Helat and maintain a monthly techno podcast.

I am a volunteer member of Clackamas County Search and Rescue (CSAR), where I lead our trail running team. I also chair the Estacada Parks and Recreation Commission.

Contact

If you need to reach me, find a link to my email address on Github*. The only social media I use is Strava. You can follow me here.

* My Github isn't the bastion of open source it once was. My work focus is on personal tools and client projects which live in private repos. Coupled with everything else I have going on in life, I am unable to maintain my own open source projects. Though I still contribute to others from time-to-time.