Steven Irby is an entrepreneurial software engineer and owner with 13 years of experience building high-performance web applications and products used by millions. He blends hands-on full-stack development (React/Next.js, Node, Django, Go) with product strategy, having co-founded a biotech startup, led front-end architecture at Comcast/Xfinity mobile, and launched consumer projects like Random Daily Art that delivered over 2.5 million emails. Known as scrappy and pragmatic, he drives incremental improvement, mentors juniors with a philosophy of extreme ownership, and hardens codebases through testing and performance work. His background spans startups, agencies, and healthcare EMR platforms, giving him a knack for finding product-market fit and operationalizing scale. A less obvious strength is his track record of shipping end-to-end systems—from building self-hosted mail automation to integrating complex scientific libraries for biomanufacturing search—showing both technical depth and operational grit. Based in London, he continues to seek collaborative challenges that connect engineering craft with real user impact.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
International Relations and Affairs, International Relations and Affairs at Fresno City College
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