Steve Temple
Technical Director & Co Founder at Gibe Digital Ltd
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSteve Temple is a seasoned technical director and co-founder with 13+ years leading web and ecommerce engineering teams from Bristol, specializing in C#, Umbraco, ASP.NET MVC and Azure. He runs the technical roadmap at Gibe Digital, combining hands-on backend development with agency delivery and a history of freelance and agency leadership on major brand sites. A three-time Umbraco MVP, Certified Master and Microsoft MCSD, he contributes to the core Umbraco CMS—modernizing APIs and removing legacy features to improve maintainability. His background spans founding a company, leading technical teams for enterprise clients like Halfords and Kia, and shipping production e-commerce platforms. Known for pragmatic refactoring and API stewardship, he brings both product-focused engineering and long-term platform thinking. Outside client work he quietly shapes open-source CMS internals, helping keep a widely used .NET CMS robust for others.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Software engineering, BSc Software engineering at University of the West of England
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Github Skills (16)
net10
asp-net10
umbraco10
cms10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
sql-server6
content-management-system6
css6
logging6
database-normalization6
tracesource6
database6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
umbraco/Umbraco-CMS
Jun 2013 - Nov 2020
Umbraco is a free and open source .NET content management system helping you deliver delightful digital experiences.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 16 commits, 14 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Steve contributed to the Umbraco CMS backend by addressing code comments, refactoring, and deprecating outdated features. They removed duplicate comments and temp files within the `MediaService`, ensuring code clarity. The user also deprecated obsolete properties such as `CreatorName`, `WriterName`, and `Url` on `IPublishedContent`, and removed an `IsRequired` configuration option in the email datatype, modernizing code structure. These commits focused on maintaining and improving the core functionalities and API of the CMS.
cmscontent-management-systemheadless-cmsaspumbraco
Gibe/Umbraco.Community.AzureSSO
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Azure AD SSO module for Umbraco
Contributions:5 releases, 13 reviews, 12 commits in 1 month
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