Steve Tooke
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
RockstarSteve Tooke is a product and engineering leader based in Southampton with 20+ years delivering software, currently Director of Product at Kosli after roles as Principal Engineer and multiple founder/consultancy stints. He combines hands-on engineering — including notable open-source contributions to the Cucumber project (refactoring core Ruby classes and hardening build/release pipelines) — with strategic product leadership across BDD and test-management offerings at SmartBear. As co-founder of Cucumber Ltd and several consultancies he has run graduate academies, led product discovery and commercialization (product "Jam"), and negotiated vendor integrations to build shared platform capabilities. Colleagues cite his knack for mentoring engineers into product roles, aligning cross-functional teams with measurable strategy, and turning technical challenges into commercially viable roadmaps.
18 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Danish, English
Github Skills (13)
maven10
maven310
cucumber10
bash10
ci-cd10
back-end-development10
ruby10
test-automation9
javascripts8
javascript8
dockers5
dockerce5
docker5
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cucumber/cucumber-ruby
Mar 2013 - Jul 2017
Cucumber for Ruby. It's amazing!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:242 commits, 18 PRs, 61 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Cucumber-Ruby project. Their work included refactoring and improving core classes, such as the `Background` and `Scenario` classes, and improving internal functions. They also focused on refactoring and optimization.
cucumberrubyamazingpolyglot-releasetidelift
cucumber/common
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
A home for issues that are common to multiple cucumber repositories
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:1 review, 20 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Steve's contributions primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes within the repository. They upgraded JavaScript dependencies, implemented release tagging, and introduced debugging for Maven deployments. The user also modified deployment scripts to prevent failures on tagged builds, ensuring a more reliable release workflow.
monorepobuilding-blockscommon-componentsbdd-frameworkcucumber
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.