Steve Gill
Director Of DevRel Engineering at Slack
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSteve Gill is a Director of DevRel Engineering at Slack with 14 years of experience building developer communities, shipping developer tools, and leading cross-functional engineering teams. He combines deep hands-on mobile and full‑stack expertise—particularly iOS/Android contributions to Apache Cordova and PhoneGap—with senior DevRel leadership across Slack and Adobe. At Adobe he helped open source internal projects and led Cordova CLI work; at Slack he progressed from senior engineer to director, blending technical mentorship with product-facing advocacy. His open source footprint includes significant platform-level fixes for media, camera, contacts and device plugins and contributions to prominent SDKs like Slack’s Bolt and node/python Slack SDKs. Known for translating native mobile complexity into reliable developer experiences, he often surfaces subtle platform behaviors (EXIF, orientation, permissions) into robust tooling and docs. Based in Vancouver, he pairs pragmatic engineering with community-building to scale developer productivity across organizations.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Punjabi
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Github Skills (72)
phonegap10
facebook-sdk10
mobile-development10
python10
image-processing10
testing10
command-line-interface10
android-developer10
javas10
cordova-plugin10
integration-testing10
javascript10
apache-cordova10
api10
geolocation10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cordova-docs
Feb 2012 - May 2018
Apache Cordova Documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:163 commits, 56 PRs, 12 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the Apache Cordova documentation repository through merging pull requests that incorporated changes from external contributors. These changes focused on updating documentation, likely refining existing content and integrating updates from various sources. The commits involved changes to files related to documentation generation, as well as updates to contribute and removal of deprecated items.
apache-cordovacordovanodejsjavascriptmobile
apache/cordova-plugin-file
Jun 2013 - Dec 2017
Apache Cordova File Plugin
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:74 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the iOS platform within the `apache/cordova-plugin-file` repository. Their work involved modifying Objective-C code, specifically within the `CDVFile.m` and `CDVFile.h` files, which suggests they are working on file management functionalities. These changes include updating references, adding new methods, and modifying existing ones within the plugin, enhancing its capabilities on iOS devices.
apache-cordovacordovaobjective-cjavanodejs
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