Stephen Hand
Lead Software Engineer at Tech Matters
Connacht, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Hand is a Lead Software Engineer based in Connacht, Ireland, with 12 years of experience building resilient, microservice-oriented systems across Java, .NET, C++ and Android. He has repeatedly driven architectural shifts—moving teams from monoliths to microservices and introducing developer-friendly test frameworks that made component-level testing standard practice. At Rent the Runway he founded a QE Tools team and shipped a Kotlin-based sandboxing framework; at EA he led platform design and cross-team alignment for next-generation telemetry and test automation. Comfortable leading small teams and mentoring engineers, he blends hands-on coding with pragmatic process change to increase quality and velocity. His background includes embedded and high-throughput geolocation systems, plus experience rehabilitating poorly performing ORMs and integrating messaging/caching tech like Redis and ZeroMQ. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who wins adoption by designing tooling that developers actually want to use.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA Hons Degree, Modern History with Economics, Second Class, Grade 1, BA Hons Degree, Modern History with Economics, Second Class, Grade 1 at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (47)
typescript10
twilio-flex10
mock-server10
service-virtualization10
test-doubles10
frontend10
backend10
react10
dotnet9
twilio-functions9
webchat9
csharp9
rest9
twilio9
nodejs9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
servirtium/archive-servirtium-dotnet
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
A C# version of Servirtium for .NET usage
Contributions:30 releases, 119 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 5 months
csharpdotnetservirtiumservice-virtualizationmock-server
techmatters/flex-plugins
Dec 2021 - Feb 2023
The Aselo frontend is built as a Twilio Flex Plugin in React and TypeScript
Contributions:6 releases, 1090 reviews, 992 commits in 1 year 2 months
frontendreacttwilio-flextypescript
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