Summary
Stephen Laide is a Senior Software Engineer based in Dublin with 10 years of experience spanning embedded systems, mobile (iOS) and web/backend development. He has balanced roles at startups and large enterprises—co-founding Yuna, building products at FoodCloud and Comcast, and now contributing at HubSpot—bringing both product intuition and scalable engineering practices. A first-class honours graduate from Queen's University Belfast, his award-winning MEng thesis implemented distributed dictionary learning on a Parallella 16-core embedded platform and was published at ICASSP 2017, signalling strong research-to-production skills. He’s shipped consumer-facing mobile apps (winner of Kainos AppCamp and an Allstate hackathon) and backend services, showing an uncommon ability to move between low-level algorithmic work and polished user experiences. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he blends algorithmic rigor with a track record of turning prototypes into deployed applications.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Software and Electronic Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Software and Electronic Systems Engineering at Queen's University Belfast
English, French, Irish