Steve Holden
Technical Architect at Department for Business and Trade
Hastings, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSteve Holden is a seasoned technical architect and software engineer with 24 years of professional experience and a deep history in Python, web technologies, databases and technical leadership. Currently shaping digital services at the UK Department for Business and Trade, he has held CTO and lead developer roles across startups and scale-ups, building teams and production-grade platforms from finance-grade order-book systems to virtual lab simulations. He combines hands-on engineering with teaching and advocacy—authoring high‑impact Python courses, chairing the Python Software Foundation, and founding community initiatives to broaden participation in tech. Comfortable across the full stack and enterprise architecture, he has a track record of turning complex domain problems into pragmatic, reliable systems. Based in Hastings, England, he brings an uncommon mix of academic roots (University of Leeds) and decades of operational experience dating back to early workstation and networking days.
23 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bradford Grammar SchoolB.Sc. (Hons)(I), Computational Science, B.Sc. (Hons)(I), Computational Science at University of Leeds
Stackoverflow
35,026reputation
4.9mreached
837answers
13questions
sql
top-5%
dataframe
top-5%
dictionary
top-5%
pandas
top-5%
conda
top-1%
django-forms
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
swagger10
numerics10
web-development10
openapi10
servicenow10
enviroment10
api10
api-rest10
fundamental10
gofmt10
microcontroller10
endpoint10
unit-testing10
user-interface10
orm10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
holdenweb/int-py-notes
Mar 2014 - Aug 2020
Notebooks from Intermediate Python videos
Contributions:58 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 6 years 5 months
pythonvideosjupyter-notebooknotebooknotebooks
steveholden/pydentities
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Some Python identities to help understand the interpreter
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 5 months
interpreterpythonidentities
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.