Steve has been both an engineer and a software engineering leader for over 30 years, almost 20 of which were spent working at Amazon (1998-2005) and then Google (2005-2017). He also served as Head of Engineering, Ads and Data Monetization at Grab in Southeast Asia from 2017 until Covid/2020, and is currently an engineer at Sourcegraph working on cutting-edge coding assistants. Steve began blogging about technical topics at Amazon in 2001-2002, and his blogging portfolio over the past twenty years is filled with solid Top Ten hits, and even a few platinum singles. He is currently focused on how AI is transforming programming and software development.