Steve Jalim
Senior Staff Backend Engineer at Mozilla
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSteve Jalim is a Senior Staff Backend Engineer with over 14 years of hands-on experience building and modernising high-traffic web platforms, currently shaping www.mozilla.org’s architecture and operational posture. He specialises in Python/Django backend systems, distributed architectures, localization at scale and data-privacy-sensitive design, and has led successful migrations across 100+ locales with zero defects. A pragmatic technical leader and mentor, he blends product-minded engineering with SRE practices—having driven self-service SRE adoption and Kubernetes/GCP operational improvements at Mozilla. His background spans bootstrapped startups, national government projects and agency work, and he’s a recognised Wagtail CMS expert who also contributes to Mozilla’s open-source Bedrock repo. Unusually for an engineer at his level, he began his career in journalism and publishing, a pedigree that surfaces in his focus on clear communication, user-centred content and stakeholder-friendly platforms.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Diploma, Magazine Journalism, Postgraduate Diploma, Magazine Journalism at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddBA Hons, French and German, BA Hons, French and German at University of ExeterMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of Bristol
English, French, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
git10
python10
django10
internationalization10
validation9
forms9
file-upload9
django-models9
automated-tests9
django-admin9
database-management9
sentry8
google-cloud-storage8
postgresql8
github-ci7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/bedrock
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Making mozilla.org awesome, one pebble at a time
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:864 reviews, 175 commits, 1062 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Steve's primary contributions focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the mozilla/bedrock repository. They added support for the isort tool to project and the black, enabling format for migrations. They also addressed critical issues by fixing HTTP 500 errors in the WhatsNewChina page and ensuring the appropriate operation of the contentful sync for VRC pages. Furthermore, they added the feature to prevent showing the root sitemap.
pebblefirefoxpythondjangocss
mozmeao/www-site-checker
Feb 2022 - Feb 2023
Tooling to check the health and content of some Mozilla sites
Contributions:51 reviews, 72 commits, 298 PRs in 1 year
healthsitestooling
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