Summary
Steve Holmes is a senior developer and technology leader with 11+ years delivering full-stack Ruby on Rails applications and over two decades of software experience across government, finance, and public-sector projects. He combines hands-on engineering (TDD/BDD, CI/CD, DevOps, AWS) with proven agile coaching, remote team leadership and vendor/offshore management, having run mission-critical services for the UK Government’s COVID response and a post-Brexit tariffs system. Comfortable owning product through to deployment, he’s built complex domains including loan management with FX/BI and high-scale aggregators handling millions of records. A pragmatic strategist and co-founder of developer meetups, he brings both budget and stakeholder management experience, regularly translating executive priorities into reliable, auditable systems. Based in Pathhead, Scotland, he often operates fully remotely and thrives in fast-paced, dynamic teams where anticipating requirements and rapid iteration matter.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computation, BSc, Computation at The University of Manchester