Steve Coffey is a founder and full-stack engineer with a decade of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI based in San Francisco. He has led engineering and product efforts across startups and scale-ups—co-founding and heading engineering at Trava, holding senior and staff roles at Sonder and Braintree, and leading the mobile team for Copy at Barracuda which served over 5 million users. A pragmatic full-stack developer who ships across web and mobile, he’s also an active open-source contributor who modernized and extended the Golang technical-analysis library techan with new indicators and module support. Unusually for an engineer, he holds a BA in Film, a background he leverages for thoughtful UX and narrative-driven product design, and describes himself on GitHub as “Engineer by day, asleep by night.”
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Film/Cinema/Video Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Film/Cinema/Video Studies at University of Michigan
Contributions:4 releases, 7 reviews, 60 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the development of a technical analysis library for Golang. Their work included migrating the project to Go modules, updating indicators with modern syntax, and adding new indicators such as trendline, RSI, and Aroon. They also addressed bug fixes, implemented code refactoring for the moving averages, and improved the codebase by adding new features and enhancements.
Contributions:62 commits, 2 PRs, 49 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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Steve Coffey - Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI