Summary
Joe Stephenson is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with six years of experience building resilient, distributed systems and developer tools. He has led a small engineering team through acquisition at Ondat and now contributes to scaling and observability efforts at Akamai after the acquisition. Deeply versed in Go, gRPC, ETCD and Kubernetes, Joe has focused on fault-tolerant control planes, microservices decomposition, and storage operators while engaging with the SIG Storage community. His background spans cloud-native infrastructure, game tooling that saved hundreds of weekly engineering hours, and low-level embedded firmware and mobile work, reflecting a rare full-stack systems breadth. A First-Class Computer Science graduate from the University of Bristol, he pairs hands-on implementation with product-driven iteration and open-source collaboration.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, First-Class Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, First-Class Honours at University of Bristol
English