Stephen Cathcart
Software Developer at Neo4j
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Cathcart is a full-stack software developer with nine years’ experience building cloud-native systems, machine learning pipelines, and polished single-page applications, currently contributing at Neo4j. He holds a 1st Class BSc in Computer Science and an MSc (Distinction) in Cloud Computing, graduating top of his class, and combines academic rigour with hands-on delivery for enterprise customers. Stephen has repeatedly driven cost savings and operational improvements—most notably a postcode algorithm change at the NHS that cut incorrect mailings by 20% and saved over a million pounds annually. As a solo founder he built MECO, an open-source, AI-powered SaaS for moderating explicit content with a Spring Boot API, Stripe billing, and a compact 7kb CSS framework, demonstrating product-level engineering across backend, frontend and infrastructure. He favors pragmatic, well-tested solutions, strong documentation and automated pipelines to enable smooth handovers and rapid, reliable releases. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he brings a practical blend of machine learning, cloud architecture and systems thinking to complex, high-throughput problems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st Class Hons, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st Class Hons at Newcastle UniversityHEFC Diploma, Mathematics, IT, Psychology, HEFC Diploma, Mathematics, IT, Psychology at Newcastle College
Github Skills (36)
javascript10
bolt10
graph-database10
neo4j10
neo4j-driver10
database-driver10
driver10
cypher10
query-language10
golang10
neo4j-database10
database10
java9
python9
dotnet8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
StephenCathcart/neo4j-go-driver
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Neo4j Bolt Driver for Go
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 234 pushes in 1 year 9 months
StephenCathcart/ergonomic-seed
Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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