Stephen Handley
Founder at Jump
Del Mar, California, United States
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Top SchoolDonkey Donkey is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native products and marketplaces from idea to production. Based in Del Mar, CA, he’s currently leading Jump, an AI-native startup stack, after co-founding Myria where he architected the luxury-services marketplace and led engineering, product, and hiring. His background spans building scalable data pipelines, search experiences, and serverless content systems using Node.js, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Postgres, Elastic, Kubernetes and AWS. Past roles include principal and senior engineering positions driving authentication, data harvesting, and IoT backends, demonstrating both hands-on implementation and team management across distributed and offshore teams. Trained in bioengineering at UC Berkeley and a Y Combinator alumnus, he brings a research-minded approach to product engineering and an uncommon early-career background in synthetic biology that informs his systems thinking. Notably, he repeatedly moves between product design and deep technical execution, shipping end-to-end platforms for high-value and consumer-facing use cases.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyW22, W22 at Y Combinator
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Github Skills (200)
serverless10
scalars10
nodejs10
mongodb10
viewer10
css10
expo10
reference-implementation10
frontend10
styled-components10
mbaas10
mysql10
react-navigation10
graphql-client10
graphql10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
stephenhandley/requireindex
Apr 2012 - Oct 2018
Write minimal node index.js files that require and export siblings by file basename
Contributions:40 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 years 6 months
exportrequireindexjavascriptjs-files
Hello10/jump
May 2020 - Feb 2025
React + GraphQL + Firebase
Contributions:18 PRs, 54 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 9 months
reactreact-graphqlfirebasefirebase-graphqlgraphql
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