Steve Pole
Engineering Lead at TransferWise
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Pole is an experienced engineering leader based in London with 11 years driving product and technical teams, currently serving as Engineering Lead at TransferWise since 2015. He previously founded and led technology at Alchemy Social, where he built the original platform and combined product design with technical sales and client-facing refinement. With a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Oxford, he brings strong analytical foundations to digital marketing, analytics, and social media engineering challenges. Steve excels at translating commercial requirements into scalable engineering roadmaps and has a track record of shipping end-to-end platforms from startup CTO to scale-stage engineering lead. Colleagues know him for blending hands-on technical oversight with product sensibility and for regularly working alongside clients to iterate propositions. He pairs entrepreneurial experience with structured delivery practices to drive measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Oxford
Github Skills (20)
css10
angularjs-components10
neptune10
react-components9
mobile-first9
javascript-framework9
html9
monorepo9
react8
typescript7
backend7
angularjs3
transferwise3
angular2
icon-pack1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
transferwise/bootstrap
May 2015 - Apr 2018
The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
Contributions:75 releases, 368 commits, 157 PRs in 3 years
cssjavascript-frameworkmobile-first
transferwise/styleguide-components
Oct 2015 - Jun 2022
AngularJS components for Wise, based on Neptune CSS
Contributions:69 releases, 25 reviews, 260 PRs in 6 years 8 months
angularjs-componentscss
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