Steve Holmes
Chief Engineer at Chorgi.io
West Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Holmes is a Chief Engineer and software craftsman with 12+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable, production-first systems across mobile, web, and cloud platforms. He has led architecture and engineering efforts from microservices and big-data pipelines to Kotlin Multiplatform mobile apps, consistently championing Day One Deployment and continuous delivery practices. Steve pairs deep hands-on skills (Ruby on Rails, Java/Kotlin, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, Terraform, AWS) with DevOps automation that reduced provisioning and onboarding times from weeks to minutes. He founded the Coder Consortium meetup to evangelize engineering best practices and agile coaching, reflecting a long-standing practice of mentoring and community building. Notable strengths include building resilient, highly available backends (Cassandra, Vert.x) and pragmatic cross-platform clients while maintaining an auditor-friendly, repeatable deployment pipeline. Based in West Sacramento, he blends philosophical curiosity (BA in Philosophy) with practical systems thinking to align engineering with customer and business goals.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy at University of California, DavisAssociate of Arts (AA), Music, Associate of Arts (AA), Music at Santa Rosa Junior College
English
Github Skills (58)
kotlin10
testing10
tdd10
specification10
bdd10
spek10
gradle9
kotlin-native8
groovy8
marshmallow8
android-library8
kotlin-multiplatform-mobile8
java8
virtualization7
nosql-database7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
iamsteveholmes/scrooge-gradle-plugin
Jul 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:6 commits in 5 months
gradlecompilescalathriftgradle-plugin
coderconsortium/coderconsortium.github.io
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:11 pushes in 7 months
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