Summary
Natasja Stephenson is a Lead Engineer based in Bath with nine years of software experience and seven focused on backend and cloud engineering. She currently leads a distributed team delivering event-driven, serverless backend services at Domestic & General, combining hands-on development with technical design and cross-functional stakeholder alignment. Her toolkit includes TypeScript, AWS CDK, serverless patterns, Rust, Terraform, Docker, and modern API architectures like GraphQL and gRPC. She has a strong teaching and mentorship background from roles at General Assembly and Code Like a Girl, which informs her collaborative leadership and developer-first practices. Comfortable across full-stack concerns from databases to monitoring, she has repeatedly moved from individual contributor roles into leadership while continuing to code. A former audio-engineering student, she brings a creative, systems-oriented perspective to building reliable cloud services.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Front-End Web Development, Front-End Web Development at General Assembly
BA Audio Engineering, BA Audio Engineering at University of West London