Steve Tooke
Director Of Product at Kosli
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Tooke is a versatile product and engineering leader with nearly two decades of experience building and commercialising developer-focused products, currently serving as Director of Product at Kosli. He combines hands-on engineering pedigree (Principal Engineer role and substantive open-source contributions to well-known projects like Cucumber) with serial-founder experience, having launched multiple startups and co-founded Cucumber Ltd. Steve is strong at bridging strategy and delivery—improving release workflows, refactoring core back-end logic, and aligning product innovation with business viability. Based in Southampton with a BEng in Software Engineering from Manchester, he brings a rare mix of release engineering know-how and product leadership that reduces technical risk while accelerating go-to-market outcomes.
18 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BEng (Hons.) Software Engineering, BEng (Hons.) Software Engineering at The University of ManchesterA-Levels: Maths (B) Physics (C) Media Studies (C) General Studies (B). GCSEs 10 A-C, A-Levels: Maths (B) Physics (C) Media Studies (C) General Studies (B). GCSEs 10 A-C at Queen Elizabeth's Upper School, Wimborne, Dorset
Danish, English
Github Skills (10)
maven10
cucumber10
bash10
back-end-development10
cicd10
ruby10
test-automation9
javascript8
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cucumber/cucumber-ruby
Mar 2013 - Jul 2017
Cucumber for Ruby. It's amazing!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:242 commits, 18 PRs, 61 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Cucumber-Ruby project. Their work included refactoring and improving core classes, such as the `Background` and `Scenario` classes, and improving internal functions. They also focused on refactoring and optimization.
cucumberrubyamazingpolyglot-releasetidelift
cucumber/common
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
A home for issues that are common to multiple cucumber repositories
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:1 review, 20 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Steve's contributions primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes within the repository. They upgraded JavaScript dependencies, implemented release tagging, and introduced debugging for Maven deployments. The user also modified deployment scripts to prevent failures on tagged builds, ensuring a more reliable release workflow.
monorepobuilding-blockscommon-componentsbdd-frameworkcucumber
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