Steve Persch
Director, Developer Experience at Pantheon Platform
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Persch is a Director of Developer Experience with 15 years of software industry experience who blends a theatre background and deep hands-on web development into engaging developer advocacy and technical marketing. At Pantheon he progressed from Developer Advocate to Director, shaping product messaging, documentation, and developer workflows while contributing to the Pantheon Docs repo by improving CI/CD, performance testing, and build tooling. He excels at translating day-to-day engineering realities into strategic narratives for conferences, videos, and technical content, grounded in real startup and agency experience. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs empathy for developers with practical DevOps and documentation improvements, making complex platforms more approachable and reliable. An uncommon strength is his theatrical training, which he leverages to craft memorable presentations and human-centered technical stories.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Communication, BS, Communication at Northwestern UniversityPius XI
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Github contributions (5)
pantheon-systems/documentation
Apr 2015 - Jun 2022
Pantheon Docs
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Technical Writer
DevOps Engineer & Technical WriterContributions:310 reviews, 63 commits, 203 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on improving the documentation build and testing processes within the repository. They integrated sitespeed.io for performance testing, configured Grunt for build tasks, and modified the CI/CD configuration. Additionally, the user made changes to documentation, including typo fixes and updates to README files and content, demonstrating an understanding of the documentation's structure and content.
docsthursdaypantheongift-of-open-source
stevector/example-acme-d8-recommendations
Aug 2017 - Apr 2019
An example of how a web agency can use a shared composer package to track and update their favorite and most commonly used Drupal 8 modules
Contributions:2 releases, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 8 months
commonlyagencyphpdrupal-8-modulesdrupal
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