Steve Cochrane
Lead Software Engineer at Tableau
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Cochrane is a Lead Software Engineer based in Austin with over a decade of experience building consumer-facing web products and developer-friendly frontends. He currently leads work on Tableau Public and previously architected high-profile gaming sites at Blizzard, including the Next.js-powered Diablo IV website and a React/Redux BlizzCon app. A former startup co-founder, he built a customizable video-site platform and a custom VideoJS-based player, blending product intuition with hands-on engineering. Steve brings strong patterns and standards experience—he created Blizzard’s first pattern library and authored departmental analytics standards—while also mentoring teams and championing inclusive culture. Outside of work he experiments with videogames, fonts, and music, reflecting a design-minded approach to front-end development.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Informatics, B.S. Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington
Persian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
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macros8
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javascript7
html5-audio7
html5-video7
videojs6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stevecochrane/dungeon-map
Sep 2017 - Dec 2021
React web application for mapping old videogames. (WIP)
Contributions:28 PRs, 166 pushes, 29 branches in 4 years 3 months
reactvideogameswipweb-applicationmapping
stevecochrane/Mar-Koochooloo
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
It's the classic snake game, for Playdate.
Contributions:229 commits, 8 PRs, 159 pushes in 8 months
playdateclassic-snake-gamegamesnakesnake-game
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