Summary
Steven Bakhtiari is a consultant technical lead with 11 years of experience designing and delivering distributed, event-driven systems and APIs for organisations including Disney Streaming, SiriusXM, HMRC and the BBC. He combines hands-on polyglot engineering with pragmatic architectural leadership, repeatedly shipping billing, subscriptions and high-throughput backend services in agile teams. Comfortable as a mentor, product-minded engineer or interim tech lead, he specialises in cost-effective platform migrations and resilient asynchronous architectures that integrate with real-world payment and data systems. Notably, he has a track record of helping large public-sector programmes save money by moving from commercial to open-source stacks while maintaining rapid delivery. Based in England, he blends enterprise-scale experience with consultancy agility to drive measurable business value.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computing, BSc (Hons) Computing at The Manchester Metropolitan University
English, French