Steve Jalim
Software engineering leader with experience across bootstraped startups, VC-gilded scaleups, national government and global orgs.I love making good things with great people.
"Steve is extremely experienced and capable, while staying humble and collaborative. He's kind and empathetic. He's helpful and enthusiastic. He's a force for positivity on a team and will go above-and-beyond to help his teammates on a project. He's got a great mind for large projects and architecture, but isn't above getting his hands dirty, focusing on all of the gritty details."
Paul McLanahan – Senior Eng, AspireEDU, ex-Mozilla
"Steve is one of those rare people that have a combination of great software development skills as well as fantastic 'soft' skills. He is the sort of glue that keeps good teams together."
Eleni Lixourioti – Staff Software Engineer, Remote
"Steve is one of the most talented, committed and capable tech leads I have ever worked with. His incredible work ethic, expertise in technology and unique ability to assess a problem from multiple points of view have been instrumental."
Shib Mathew – Founder, YunoJuno
"Steve has an exceptional tech brain but remains one of the warmest, friendliest people you'll ever meet. He's one of the best tech leads I've ever worked under"
Marcel Kornblum – technology leader
"Steve has a great eye for detail and shows a careful, methodical approach to solving problems and identifying solutions. He is very capable when it comes to leading large, and often complex projects.Above everything, Steve is just a wonderful human being. Whoever gets to work with him should consider themselves very lucky indeed."
Alex Gibson – Engineering Lead, eyeo, ex-Mozilla
"Steve not only built robust, complex software, but approached the task with a level of care, diligence and emotional investment that I wouldn’t always get from a full-time employee. He is clear-thinking, supremely amiable and extremely capable."
Nick Thistleton – MD, Lucky Voice
About
I’m Steve Jalim, a UK-based software developer. I am proud to work at Mozilla, where I wrangle backend services as a Senior Staff Engineer.I’m experienced in building and leading the development of high-quality full-stack webapps powered by happy, distributed teams and using pragmatic, agile-leaning project management techniques.I'm a language and framework polyglot, but if I have to ship something stable, fast my go-to technologies include Python, Django, ES6 Javascript, Postgres and Redis.My time at Mozilla followed around 15 years of consulting and contracting. During that time I literally wrote the book on being a freelance developer.
Contact
You can connect with me on LinkedIn.
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