Stephen Lloyd-hirst
Principal Software Engineer at Sage
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Lloyd-hirst is a Principal Software Engineer with 13+ years focused on web and SaaS products, currently leading internationalisation efforts for Sage One Accounting. He brings deep Ruby on Rails expertise and a disciplined, standards-driven approach honed across major projects and strict timelines. His career at Sage progressed from developer to principal, contributing to the global rollout of Accounting and Accounts Extra while collaborating with distributed teams. Comfortable working on components of much larger systems, he blends hands-on development with architectural stewardship and a knack for pragmatic cross-team coordination. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he combines business IT education with two decades of commercial software experience, often translating complex international requirements into maintainable Rails solutions.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Business Information Technology, Bsc Business Information Technology at University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Github Skills (14)
react9
coverage9
sage9
component-library9
code-coverage9
ui-components8
continuous-integration7
changelog5
cli4
refactor2
prototyping2
tla2
mason2
tooling1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
slloyd-hirst/dotfiles
Mar 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
slloyd-hirst/renogen
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
A tool to generate release notes/changelog
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
changelognotesrelease-notescli
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