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Engineer · Architect · Founder

Steven Boyle

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// about

Hi, I’m Steven! I like building things and figuring out the tricky problems along the way.

Steven Boyle
~/me.jpgNewcastle upon Tyne, UK

I've spent over a decade building software for the web, growing from IC to leading engineering teams - owning the whole path from architecture to delivery. I enjoy working hands-on with customers across pre-sale and post-sale, from the first technical conversation through to launch and beyond.

now
Technical Lead & Engineering Manager at hedgehog lab · Founder, HelloWorld Technologies Ltd
studied
BA (Hons) Computer Science — First Class (1:1), Northumbria University
off hours
  • Deep nature breakaways and walking trails
  • Walkies with the pooches
  • Gym
  • Nerding out

// timeline

The journey so far. Roles, milestones and the odd detour.

  1. now

    HEAD → mainworkhelloworld

    Building a GenAI workload reduction platform for teachers, with a core focus on infrastructure and agentic engineering.

  2. Oct 2025

    foundedOct 2025 — Present

    Founder (part-time)HelloWorld Technologies Ltd

    Sole technical founder building developer tools on the side. Latest launch is gitgood.io, which drives code-review engagement across distributed teams.

  3. 2024

    promoted2024 — Present

    Engineering Managerhedgehog lab

    Manages internal and forward-deployed engineering teams: mentorship, code review, pairing, career development and conducting technical interviews. Still hands-on, writing and shipping code alongside the teams.

  4. 2023

    promoted2023 — Present

    Technical Leadhedgehog lab

    Owns full-stack architecture and engineering standards across the business, for clients ranging from startups to large enterprise customers. Leads technical delivery for multiple products serving hundreds of thousands of users.

  5. 2021

    promoted2021 — 2023

    Senior Software Engineerhedgehog lab

    Worked across greenfield and brownfield engagements, and began influencing decisions across the frontend department: state management, async data fetching, TanStack Query, and server-side rendering. Pioneered the company's adoption of Next.js.

  6. Jan 2019

    joinedJan 2019 — 2021

    Software Engineerhedgehog lab

    Built features in React for multiple customers, and drove the team's adoption of hooks, moving from class components to function components, custom hooks and the Context API.

  7. Jun 2018

    graduated

    BA (Hons) Computer Science — First Class (1:1)Northumbria University

    I graduated! Covered topics such as web technologies, object-oriented programming in Java, relational databases and SQL, embedded systems in C and C++, artificial intelligence and machine learning, finishing with a web-focused dissertation.

  8. Jun 2018

    first roleJun 2018 — Jan 2019

    Systems DeveloperLookers

    Joined just before graduating. Helped build the reporting databases dealership and sales teams leaned on, kept the feeds pushing stock to brand and third-party sites running, and rebuilt a few ageing PHP apps along the way.

  9. 2016

    placement2016 — 2017

    Software Developer (Internship)Mid-sized Software Agency

    University placement on a pre-tenancy platform used by hundreds of UK estate agents. My first time shipping to production: building user-facing features, taking live support calls from customers, and fixing bugs directly on production servers.

  10. 2014

    started

    BA (Hons) Computer ScienceNorthumbria University

    Started a four-year computer science sandwich degree.

// projects

Outside the day job. Side quests shipped after hours.

HelloWorld Technologies LtdFounder (part-time)Oct 2025 — Present

gitgood.io

Code-review engagement for distributed teams, built solo as sole technical founder.

TypeScript / React / Next.js / Node.js / PostgreSQL / Drizzle ORM / Vercel / Supabase / Clerk / Tailwind / Claude Code

4 highlights
  • Built a real-time PR sync engine on GitHub's API
  • Built a context-aware AI feedback evaluation system to incentivise high-signal code review
  • Designed a gamified UX system — streaks, progression, feedback loops — to drive consistent participation
  • Owned all technical and architectural decisions, including build-vs-buy across auth, database, and infra
visit gitgood.io

This site

stevenboyle.dev

A static Next.js site whose hero is a WebGPU agent swarm, simulated on the GPU with vgpu.

TypeScript / Next.js / React / WebGPU / WGSL / vgpu / RSS

4 highlights
  • Agent swarm simulated in WGSL compute shaders, rendered as instanced SDF robots
  • GPU → CPU feedback for live telemetry: agents, crews working, tasks done
  • Medium posts pulled from the RSS feed at build time and rendered as native pages, with a committed snapshot that keeps older posts and builds working if Medium is down
  • ⌘K command palette, git-graph timeline, static export with no server at runtime

you’re here

// writing

Some of my technical ramblings. Also on Medium.

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