Steve Boeddeker joined Skywalker Sound in 1995 as an assistant sound designer for The Frighteners and Mars Attacks! He began his career in sound creating high end audio libraries for digital sampling keyboards at companies such as Emu, Akai and Roland. He did freelance CD mastering and was a professional products manager for Digidesign/AVID. While at the Saul Zaentz Film Company Boeddeker did sound design for his first feature film project, David Fincher's thriller Seven. Boeddeker studied computer engineering and electronic/computer music at University of California San Diego and University of California Santa Barbara, graduating in 1988. Past film projects include Creed, Bridge of Spies, The Divergent Series: Allegiant, Pixels, Chappie, A Most Violent Year, All is Lost, Lincoln, Beasts of the Southern Wild, TRON: Legacy.