Steve Talbot

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ABOUT ME

Experienced startup CTO and software consultant

As a serial co-founder of tech startups, I've worked with a wide range of technologies and supported many engineers to do their best work - whether by troubleshooting a specific technical issue, improving engineering process, or simply acting as an independent mentor.

English

UTC (+00:00)

Joined October 2019

EXPERTISE

Full Stack

16 years experience

I've architected and built several API-based web applications and console applications from the ground up, using a variety of popular fra...

I've architected and built several API-based web applications and console applications from the ground up, using a variety of popular frameworks.

RESTful API TypeScript API PHP JavaScript Symfony Ionic Angular React Redux

Database

16 years experience

I've worked with a range of database back ends, both SQL and NoSQL.

CouchDB MongoDB NoSQL

CouchDB MongoDB NoSQL PostgreSQL MySQL SQL

Elasticsearch

7 years experience

Many of the platforms I've worked on use Elasticsearch for free-text search and filtering. I have experience in designing data structure...

Many of the platforms I've worked on use Elasticsearch for free-text search and filtering. I have experience in designing data structures for indexing, writing queries, and dev ops for Elasticsearch clusters.

DevOps

7 years experience

I have extensive dev ops experience with Linux and AWS, having designed and set up the infrastructure for several cloud platforms.

AWS Nginx Terraform

AWS Nginx Terraform AWS Lambda Docker Ansible Linux

Agile

7 years experience

All my recent projects have followed an agile development process, with best practices including automated build, test and deployment.

Jira Jenkins Circleci

Jira Jenkins Circleci Version control Continuous Deployment Continuous Integration Automation Test Automation Test driven development Git

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EMPLOYMENTS

Chief Technology Officer

EverKnock

2021-03-01-Present

Buying a home is a terrible experience characterised by stress and confusion. EverKnock is creating a digital platform to empower home-mo...

Buying a home is a terrible experience characterised by stress and confusion. EverKnock is creating a digital platform to empower home-movers, enabling them to easily navigate the process, with on demand personalised advice and valuable data insights.

PHP

Angular

PostgreSQL

PHP

Angular

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

TypeScript

Symfony

Ionic

Lex

AWS

Software consultant

Solviq Ltd

2012-07-01-Present

Employing a full-time technologist with strong knowledge, skill and experience is difficult and sometimes unaffordable. However, the co...

Employing a full-time technologist with strong knowledge, skill and experience is difficult and sometimes unaffordable. However, the cost of mistakes made by not having one can be crippling. I act as a consulting CTO to fill that resource gap, helping to put my clients' projects on strong technical foundations.

Consulting

Software architects

Consulting

Software architects

Chief Technology Officer

TrackMyMove (Properr Software Ltd)

2015-12-01-2019-09-01

TrackMyMove is a white-label portal which helps everyone involved in the sale or purchase of a home to monitor progress and track activit...

TrackMyMove is a white-label portal which helps everyone involved in the sale or purchase of a home to monitor progress and track activity, empowering through informing. As the founding CTO, I helped secure investment, developed the technology strategy and architecture for the cloud-based platform, and recruited and led the engineering team to deliver the software and infrastructure.

PHP

Elasticsearch

CouchDB

PHP

Elasticsearch

CouchDB

Es6

React

Silex

JavaScript

React Native

Redux

AWS