Steven Pears
Senior Consultant at CGI
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Pears is a seasoned Senior Consultant and technical architect with over 12 years building cloud-native and .NET-based systems, now working across AWS and .NET Core at CGI. He combines hands-on engineering with solution architecture experience from roles at BJSS and Experian, helping teams deliver features, prototypes and tooling in regulated environments. A long-time Microsoft stack specialist who regularly uses Python, he also contributes meaningful open-source work—co-authoring the Alexa.NET NuGet package and enhancing the dotless LESS CSS parser with features like extend and media scoping. Based in Nottingham, he balances pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for new technologies, often packaging reusable libraries to help other .NET developers integrate with platforms like Slack, Tumblr and Amazon Echo. Outside work he’s a self-described geek, dad and gamer who keeps fit at the gym, which helps him sustain the energy for both client delivery and personal projects.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Chatham House Grammar SchoolBusiness Information Systems Computer Science, Business Information Systems Computer Science at University of East Anglia
English
Github Skills (8)
css10
lessc10
text-parsing10
csharp10
parsing10
dotnet-core10
unit-testing9
computer-engineering8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dotless/dotless
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
.NET Port of the ruby Less CSS lib
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the implementation and enhancement of the LESS CSS parser within the dotless library. Their work involved adding new features, such as the "extend" functionality, which allows for more flexible CSS class inheritance and modification. They also made significant updates to the core parsing logic, incorporating features like media scoping and nested ruleset extensions. Further contributions include adding tests to validate the new functionality and refactoring code to maintain the code's readability.
cssless-cssruby
stoiveyp/Alexa.NET.MD2Ssml
Dec 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 6 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 7 months
ssmlmarkdowncoming-soon
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