Steve Souders
Chief SpeedCurver
Los Altos, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Souders is a pioneering web performance leader with 12 years of senior experience focused on the intersection of speed and design, currently shaping performance insights as Chief SpeedCurver at SpeedCurve. He previously led performance efforts at Google, Fastly, and Yahoo!, and authored the seminal books High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites. Creator of widely used tools and datasets—including YSlow, the HTTP Archive, Browserscope, Episodes, and ControlJS—he blends product, research, and tooling to make performance measurable and actionable. Steve has also taught high-performance web engineering at Stanford and co-chaired O’Reilly’s Velocity conference, reflecting a rare mix of practitioner, educator, and community builder. Based in Los Altos, he continues to influence how teams balance design with measurable speed improvements across the web.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at University of VirginiaMS, MS at Stanford University
Stackoverflow
41reputation
7kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (46)
gzip10
mojolicious10
website-performance10
internet10
lists9
javascript9
webpagetest9
http-archive9
nodejs9
amazon-redshift8
loader7
fetch7
questions-and-answers7
google-maps6
amazon6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
HTTPArchive/legacy.httparchive.org
Jan 2014 - Oct 2017
<<THIS REPOSITORY IS DEPRECATED>> The HTTP Archive provides information about website performance such as # of HTTP requests, use of gzip, and amount of JavaScript. This information is recorded over time revealing trends in how the Internet is performing. Built using Open Source software, the code and data are available to everyone allowing researchers large and small to work from a common base.
Contributions:301 commits, 153 pushes, 43 comments in 3 years 9 months
http-requestsjavascripthttp-archivearchivelists
stevesouders/episodes
Aug 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:14 commits in 2 months
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