Stephen Hand
Lead Software Engineer at Tech Matters
Connacht, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Hand is a Lead Software Engineer based in Connacht, Ireland, with 12 years of experience building resilient, microservice-oriented systems across Java, .NET, C++ and Android. He has repeatedly driven architectural shifts—moving teams from monoliths to microservices and introducing developer-friendly test frameworks that made component-level testing standard practice. At Rent the Runway he founded a QE Tools team and shipped a Kotlin-based sandboxing framework; at EA he led platform design and cross-team alignment for next-generation telemetry and test automation. Comfortable leading small teams and mentoring engineers, he blends hands-on coding with pragmatic process change to increase quality and velocity. His background includes embedded and high-throughput geolocation systems, plus experience rehabilitating poorly performing ORMs and integrating messaging/caching tech like Redis and ZeroMQ. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who wins adoption by designing tooling that developers actually want to use.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA Hons Degree, Modern History with Economics, Second Class, Grade 1, BA Hons Degree, Modern History with Economics, Second Class, Grade 1 at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (55)
flex10
expressjs10
typescript10
twilio-flex10
api10
rest10
rest-api10
frontend10
backend10
mongodb10
react10
twilio10
twilio-functions9
nodejs9
emoticons8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
techmatters/flex-plugins
Dec 2021 - Feb 2023
The Aselo frontend is built as a Twilio Flex Plugin in React and TypeScript
Contributions:6 releases, 1015 reviews, 992 commits in 1 year 2 months
reactflex-plugintwilio-flextwilioflex
stephenhand/WebReports
Dec 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
highchartsjavascriptsimple-demotrainingadventureworks
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