Summary
Steve Jenkins is a Principal Software Engineer and team leader with 13 years of experience building scalable backend and infrastructure systems while still shipping production-quality code. Based in Vancouver, he blends hands-on Node.js and AWS (CDK, ECS, S3, SQS, Lambda) expertise with people leadership, currently managing and mentoring teams of up to eight within much larger engineering organizations. His background spans frontend roots in React, Angular and WebComponents through to replatforming e-commerce sites and designing zero-downtime rollouts, giving him a pragmatic full‑stack perspective. He’s comfortable owning roadmaps, sprint processes and on-call reliability, and has a track record of internationalization, CI/CD and observability improvements. Outside work he experiments with consumer voice apps—having built several Alexa skills that attracted thousands of users—illustrating a flair for product-focused side projects.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS (Hons) Computer Science with Industrial Placement, BS (Hons) Computer Science with Industrial Placement at Newcastle University
GCSEs Multiple, GCSEs Multiple at Castle Rushen High School
English