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Top SchoolSteven Challis is a Staff Software Engineer based in Oregon with 16 years of experience building and operationalizing enterprise and fintech platforms. He blends deep technical chops in cloud architecture and platform engineering with commercial acumen honed across engineering, product, accounts, and sales roles at companies from startups to AWS and large agencies. Notable highlights include advising and delivering anti-fraud remittances systems for major banks, being an award-winning AWS Enterprise Solutions Architect and public speaker, and currently shaping platform reliability for a neobank. Comfortable moving between hands-on full-stack delivery and high-level strategy, he also runs freelance advisory work and founded a digital agency, showing an entrepreneurial streak alongside enterprise impact. His wry GitHub motto hints at a pragmatic, humor-forward approach to complex production environments.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 BSc (Hons), Computing, 2:1 BSc (Hons), Computing at University of Leeds