Summary
Steve Gardner is a Creative Engineer with 10 years of experience crafting user-focused front-end experiences and data-driven visualization tools across startups and enterprise clients. He has shaped product direction from early-stage growth at Black Swan Data—helping scale the company internationally and delivering award-winning data science front-ends for clients like Disney—to leading interactive projects for major consumer brands at agencies. Skilled at translating complex analytics into intuitive interfaces, he moves between hands-on development and product-led UX strategy. Now at Playful Software after senior frontend roles, he blends creative problem-solving with a history of shipping high-profile campaigns and platforms across Canada, the UK, and the US. An early employee at multiple companies, he brings both startup grit and proven delivery on large cross-functional projects.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Media Arts, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Media Arts at University of Plymouth