Steve Barker
Executive Director (Technology) at Steplab
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSteve Barker is an experienced full‑stack engineer and technology leader with over a decade of hands‑on experience building and scaling web platforms, now serving as Executive Director (Technology) at Steplab. He brings deep back‑end expertise in Python and PHP, extensive AWS knowledge (Lambda, EC2, SNS/SQS, RDS, DynamoDB) and practical experience across monoliths and microservice architectures. Steve has progressed from QA automation and engineering roles into technical leadership, combining delivery focus with an appreciation for front‑end UX using JavaScript and Vue.js. His background spans fast‑moving startups and freelance client work, giving him a pragmatic approach to CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud operations. Based in London, he pairs MSc training with a track record of maturing teams and systems — often bridging gaps between ops, testing and product to ship reliable services.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at University of Sussex
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Github Skills (64)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
amaitu/Empire-Earth-SoundBoard
Sep 2019 - Feb 2022
A soundboard for the 2001 classic RTS game Empire Earth.
Contributions:159 commits, 34 PRs, 159 pushes in 2 years 5 months
empiretailwindcssearthrtsvtt
amaitu/laravel-5.7-from-scratch
Oct 2018 - Jun 2020
Laravel 5.7 From Scratch
Contributions:10 PRs, 17 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 7 months
laravelphpscratchlaravel-5
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