Stephen Wells
Co-Head Of Product And Platform
Reading, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Wells is a senior software leader with 17 years’ experience building scalable, distributed systems and currently co-heading Product and Platform at Juno. He is a full‑stack engineer comfortable from rich JavaScript frontends to cloud databases and REST/GraphQL microservices, with deep hands‑on experience in Scala, serverless functions, and operational architecture. His background includes leading major platform projects at Guardian and Schibsted—driving CMS, content API and marketplace microservice design across globally distributed teams. Equally at home prototyping mobile apps and production backend services, he pairs pragmatic engineering with product thinking to deliver maintainable systems. Based in Reading, UK, he has a track record of introducing Scala into large teams and mentoring engineers while shaping long‑term platform strategy.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Southampton
English
Github Skills (38)
client-library10
authentication10
guardian10
integral9
manager9
organizer9
api9
scala8
paths7
subset7
federated7
python7
image-management7
frontend6
data-model4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
steppenwells/databaseliner
Apr 2009 - Oct 2010
Databaseliner is a tool for spidering a database to produce a referentially integral subset of data.
Contributions:31 commits in 1 year 5 months
subsetdatabaseintegral
guardian/scalatra-openid-consumer
Apr 2012 - Nov 2013
Contributions:11 commits in 1 year 7 months
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