# Steve Calvert > Software Engineer @ Glean Location: Pleasanton, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/stevecalvert With over 20 years of experience in software development, I am a passionate and skilled software engineer who loves to build fast, scalable, and user-friendly web applications. I am currently a Senior Staff software engineer at LinkedIn, where I lead an effort to scale code craft insights to all LinkedIn Engineering. In my previous role, I was the technical lead for LinkedIn's flagship product, linkedin.com, and part of the Client Web Frameworks team. I worked on various projects to improve the performance, testing, and tooling of the web application, including Project Fast, Project Bertie, and Ember native classes. I also contributed and maintained several open source libraries, and received the Engineering Leadership Award in 2018. I have extensive expertise in Ember, JavaScript, and web frameworks, and I enjoy sharing my knowledge and learning from others. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Glean Jan 2025 – Present Leading Glean's Developer Platform with a focus on making building on Glean a delightful experience. ### Principal Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Driving the future of employee productivity through AI, automation, and intelligent knowledge systems. ### Senior Staff Software Engineer - Knowledge Systems @ LinkedIn Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | United States Focused on improving productivity for our employees as part of the Productivity Engineering organization. 2023 - present - Tech Lead for the Improving the Knowledge Experience (IKE) project. This project centered around enabling all LinkedIn employees to efficiently find the information they need to do their jobs. Heavily leveraging ML and RAG-based question/answer synthesis to efficiently surface knowledge. 2022 - Focused on Code Quality and Craft. Lead an effort to scale code craft insights to all LinkedIn Engineering by leveraging the industry standard code visualization tool, SonarQube. ### Senior Staff Software Engineer - Client Web Frameworks @ LinkedIn Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | United States Worked on the Client Application Frameworks team, which built the frameworks, tools, and support infrastructure for consumer and internal applications. 2020-2021 - Built tools and infrastructure to enable code craft insights for the JavaScript ecosystem. ### Senior Staff Software Engineer - linkedin.com Web Architect @ LinkedIn Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale, California Web Architect for linkedin.com - the Tech Lead for LinkedIn's Flagship product, linkedin.com, and part of the Client Web Frameworks team. 2019 - Tech Lead for Project Fast, linkedin.com's site speed effort focused on the Mobile Web application. 2018 - Led a 'Code Yellow' effort to improve the testing stability and infrastructure in LinkedIn's biggest web application. - Helped organize and push the effort to bring ES6 native classes to Ember through LinkedIn contributions. - Focused on increasing Engineering Productivity through better tools and practices. - Contributed and maintained several open source libraries. - Worked on improving tooling and test debugging with Ember's testing infrastructure. 2017 - Tech Lead for Project Bertie, linkedin.com's site speed effort to improve Flagship performance (reduced site speed in Q2 - 2017 by ~17% initial and ~11% subsequent page load times at p90 US) ### Staff Software Engineer - Ember Core @ LinkedIn @ LinkedIn Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale, California Ember Core team @ LinkedIn ### Staff Software Engineer - Tech Lead - Publishing/Sharing @ LinkedIn Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Tech lead for the Publishing and Sharing teams ### Engineering Manager - SlideShare @ LinkedIn Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Founded in 2006 with the goal of making knowledge sharing easy, SlideShare joined the LinkedIn family in 2012 and has since grown into a top destination for professional content. With over 18 million uploads in 40 content categories, it is today one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world. I lead a team of talented Software Engineers who's focus is to increase the acquisition of high quality content through multiple channels. We use a data-driven approach to product development, leveraging LinkedIn's extensive technical infrastructure to help achieve our goals. ### Software Engineering Manager @ Mobify Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Vancouver, Canada Area As the Engineering Manager for Mobify's Customer Success team, I led a team of 23 Front End Engineers, QA Engineers, and Web Developers. Through focussing on development practices and tooling, I helped realize the successful release of multiple high-profile eCommerce mobile web applications, consistently achieving higher conversions. ### Senior Software Developer - Full Stack @ ThoughtFarmer Jan 2008 – Jan 2013 | Vancouver, Canada Area Part of a small agile team focussed on all aspects of application development. Detailing, architecting, and developing features for the product on a daily basis. ### Software Developer @ OpenRoad Communications Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 ### Lead Software Engineer @ Veratta Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 ### Web Developer @ Veratta Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 ### Quality Assurance Analyst @ Vision Critical Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 ## Education ### CST (Hons) in Computer Science British Columbia Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stevecalvert --- Source: https://flows.cv/stevecalvert JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stevecalvert/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11