Steven Humphrey
Principal Software Engineer at BBC
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSteven Humphrey is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience driving search and navigation engineering at the BBC and a background leading full-stack and infrastructure teams. He blends deep expertise in Modern Perl (Plack/PSGI, Moose, Dancer), JavaScript/TypeScript, Python and C/C++ with practical Linux, SQL and AWS experience to deliver robust backend systems. Steven has a track record of improving core open-source projects—such as contributions to Dancer2 that fixed UTF-8/YAML serialization and tightened test coverage—demonstrating attention to encoding edge cases and documentation. Comfortable both architecting systems and rolling up his sleeves, he has led teams at Inview and Daxtra building IP-connected devices, integrations and production services. Based in England, he pairs methodical engineering and object-oriented design thinking with a curiosity for new technologies and a penchant for quietly improving developer ergonomics.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The University of EdinburghEuropean School II Woluwe
English, French, Dutch
Stackoverflow
31reputation
6kreached
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5questions
Github Skills (14)
webpages10
perl10
web-content10
yaml9
json9
testing8
api-design7
css6
fade-in6
api6
google-maps-api6
mouseover6
onload6
joomla6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PerlDancer/Dancer2
Apr 2013 - Nov 2014
Perl Dancer Next Generation (rewrite of Perl Dancer)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Steven focused on enhancing the Perl Dancer2 framework's core functionality, addressing JSON serialization, and ensuring UTF-8 character set handling. They fixed missing documentation, improved YAML serialization by correctly handling UTF-8 encoding and byte strings, and refactored the test suite to align with existing route handling behavior. The user also refactored internal code and configurations, updating dependencies, and clarifying documentation related to routes.
dancernext-generationrewriteperl
shumphrey/fugitive-gitlab.vim
Mar 2017 - Jul 2022
A vim extension to fugitive.vim for GitLab support
Contributions:4 reviews, 40 commits, 16 PRs in 5 years 4 months
vim-extensionfugitivegitlabvim
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