Steve Lacey Software Engineer
About
Hey I’m Steve, a Software Engineer with 20 years of experience writing Python, PHP, and Ruby. I specialize in building web apps using frameworks like Laravel, Django, React, and Vue.js.
I work remotely with teams to build appropriate, elegant and reliable solutions to complex problems; helping global companies, startups and web agencies reach business goals with technology, on-budget, on-time.
I am always on the look out for new and exciting projects. If you’re interested in hiring me check out my resume and send me a message.
Skills
Projects
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Gun.io Senior Software Engineer 2021 – 2023
Gun.io helps world-class engineering teams hire the world’s most sought-after freelance engineers at a moment’s notice. I worked on the web app, and on the platform.
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Law School Transparency Technical Lead 2020 – Present
Law School Transparency helps prelaw students make strategic choices about where to attend law school. I lead the Product & Engineering team and consult on various strategies at LSAC.
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Open Up Music Technical Lead 2017 – Present
Open Up Music support Music Education Hubs, arts organisations and schools to create orchestras that are accessible to young disabled people. I built the Open Orchestras Laravel app, and the Django API that powers The Clarion.
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Universal Music Senior Software Engineer 2017 – 2018
Universal Music Group is the world's leading music company. I worked with them to build out an internal web app using tech like Django, Elasticsearch, Vue and Kubernetes.
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Hanzo Platform Lead 2014 – 2016
Hanzo specialize in cutting edge web archiving technology. I built their web app and API, and implemented new crawling strategies, playback methods, change analysis and differential comparison tools.
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Simpleweb Senior Software Engineer 2013 – 2016
I worked with some great people at Simpleweb, specializing in building SaaS products for startups, including Contactzilla, Rusic, SurveyWizard and working with Hanzo Archives.
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Enjin Cloud Platform Lead 2019 – 2020
Enjin build a suite of blockchain products that enable game developers to easily create, manage, distribute, and integrate blockchain assets. I rebuilt their GraphQL API, PHPUnit test suite and Vue.js frontend.
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Tapmydata Senior Software Engineer 2018 – 2019
Tap makes it simple to see what personal data organisations hold about you, and then act on it. I built out their web app, api and end-to-end encryption using tech like Sodium, Stellar, Laravel and Vue.
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Coworkations Founder 2017
Coworkations is a database of the best remote working retreats for digital nomads. We index, review and rank travel while working groups like Hacker Paradise, Remote Year and Unsettled.
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Zilly Senior Software Engineer 2017
Zilly helps property owners manage rentals from anywhere. I worked on various reporting features, refactoring and implemented Stripe-style versioning on their Rails-based API.
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CloudPeeps Senior Software Engineer 2016
CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. I worked various sprints on their Rails app – including implementing messaging, package search and combining their user models.
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PHPSW Organizer 2013 – 2015
In 2013 I took over the PHP South West UK user group in Bristol, organizing monthly talk nights and growing it over 2 years to become one of the most regularly attended in the country.
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Rails Girls Coach 2014
Rails Girls is a global, non-profit volunteer community, whose aim is to give tools and a community for women to understand technology and to build their ideas.
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Wired Media Senior Developer 2010 – 2013
As technical lead I headed up various strategies including re-envisaging the company's ecommerce offerings with a Symfony2-based solution and recruiting and training junior developers. I built Easier, Signworld, Fleur of England and BBI Solutions.