Steve Sobel
Founder at Reddit Enhancement Suite
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Sobel is a seasoned software leader and founder with 16+ years building product-focused engineering organizations and developer tools from startups to scale-ups. Former Director of Engineering at Toast, he grew a payroll line of business from $12.5M to over $130M ARR while expanding engineering from ~15 to 40+ and dramatically improving incident and bug triage processes. He founded Reddit Enhancement Suite, an open-source browser extension with over 3 million users that helped shape browser WebExtensions support and was among the first extensions shipped with Microsoft Edge. A pragmatic people manager and process improver, he runs the Chicago Software Engineering Managers' Meetup and consistently emphasizes inclusive hiring and career ladders. Based in Chicago, he pairs hands-on engineering experience across full-stack web, fintech, and interactive agencies with a knack for turning messy processes into predictable, high-performing teams.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish
Github Skills (109)
microsoft-edge-extension10
firefox-addon10
webextension10
reddit10
opera-extension10
goodies10
chrome-extension10
cross-browser10
django9
browser9
historical9
praw9
ecobee9
chrome9
safari-extension9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SenchaArchitect/Kiva
Jan 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:3 commits in 9 months
DanGe42/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite
Feb 2012 - Jul 2012
Contributions:256 commits in 4 months
enhancement-suiteenhancementsuiteredditchrome-extension
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