Steve Landey
Staff Software Engineer at Descript
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Landey is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building mobile and backend systems, currently focused on product-forward engineering at Descript after leading mobile foundations and AI workflow work at Asana. He blends hands-on coding, mentorship, and architecture, having managed iOS and Android teams, rethought mobile app architectures, and shipped major features across startups and scale-ups. An active open-source contributor and former primary maintainer of Yelp’s mrjob, he cares about code maintainability and devops for data workflows while also improving developer experience through documentation (notably for Pillow). Steve’s background spans startups to large engineering organizations, and he prefers being close to users and product problems rather than purely “big data” roles. Based in Kirkland, WA, he describes himself as a dedicated dabbler and former entrepreneur who enjoys practical, well-crafted solutions and iterating toward simplicity. He asks you to visit his website if you want the full story.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University
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Github Skills (20)
restructuredtext10
back-end-development10
python10
image10
configuration-management10
hadoop10
documentation10
unit-testing9
emr9
tree9
devops8
image-processing7
swing6
symbol-table6
cocoa6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/mrjob
Jan 2012 - May 2014
Run MapReduce jobs on Hadoop or Amazon Web Services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:225 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on refactoring and improving the core components of the `mrjob.runner` module. They converted large parts of the module to use `OptionStore`, a configuration management class, demonstrating a focus on code maintainability and modularity. The user also made changes to configuration files, testing, and examples. The user's changes to the Hadoop and EMR runner classes indicates involvement in infrastructure setup and support.
amazonweb-servicessparkamazon-web-servicesmapreduce
python-pillow/Pillow
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
Python Imaging Library (Fork)
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:31 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Steve's contributions primarily involve documenting the Pillow library, focusing on the :py:mod:`PIL.Image` module and its associated methods. Their work includes creating reference documentation, fixing formatting issues in docstrings, and adding detailed explanations and examples for various functions within the library. The user's changes touch upon several areas including the main documentation index, and reference documentation for other modules within Pillow. These changes are focused on improving usability for developers.
imagepythonimagingpython-3image-processing
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