Open to senior / lead roles & select freelance

Lead engineer building AI-powered products and generative UI systems.

I'm Steve Alden, a Lead Software Engineer with 6.5+ years shipping production software. I design and build scalable developer platforms, LLM-driven tooling, and the React architecture underneath, end to end.

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01Selected work
01Generative UI platformFlagship

TurboUI

Problem
Turning a design intent into production React still meant hand-translating mockups into components, the slowest part of every build.
What I built
A generative UI system that turns text, images, or a Figma URL into production-ready React. LLM-driven generation on React, Tailwind and shadcn/ui, with iterative chat-based editing to refine output.
  • LLMs
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Tailwind
  • shadcn/ui
02Just for fun

Pokédex

Making sure my 10-year-old self would be proud. A Pokédex built with Next.js, Material UI, and the Pokémon API.

  • Next.js
  • Material UI
  • PokéAPI
02Experience

SDE 3 · RootQuotient

  • Lead cross-functional teams delivering full-stack features on AWS and React.
  • Own architecture decisions and mentor engineers on design and code quality.
2025 — Present

Lead Software Engineer · Kerv Digital

  • Led LLM-integrated developer tooling and schema-driven UI initiatives.
  • Acted as primary technical liaison between engineering and stakeholders.
2025

Senior Software Engineer · Kerv Digital

  • Built a Next.js front-end framework for GOV.UK-compliant accessible sites.
  • Automated CI/CD pipelines and raised engineering standards across teams.
2022 — 2025

Software Engineer · Kerv Digital

  • Shipped React + GraphQL UIs for e-learning and supply-chain platforms.
  • Refactored legacy codebases toward cloud-native patterns.
2019 — 2022
CertifiedMicrosoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
03What I help teams build

AI-powered products

LLM features that ship: generative UI, prompt-to-output systems, retrieval and tool-using workflows wired into real product surfaces.

Developer platforms & tooling

Internal platforms, schema-driven rendering, and DX tooling that compounds, letting whole teams move faster.

Next.js / React architecture

Front-end frameworks and component systems built for scale, performance, and accessibility from the first commit.

Design systems

Token-driven, accessible component libraries that keep large products visually and structurally consistent.

Full-stack product builds

End-to-end ownership from data model to deploy: Node, PostgreSQL, Azure/AWS, CI/CD, and the UI on top.

Technical leadership

Architecture ownership, code review, mentoring, and the standards work that turns a codebase into an asset.

04How I work
Own the whole problem
From data model to the pixel. I take features end to end rather than throwing work over a wall.
Leverage over output
The best engineering removes future work. Tooling, design systems, and clean architecture compound.
Ship, then refine
Production is the only real feedback. I get things in front of users, then iterate with intent.
Raise the floor
Code review, mentoring, and standards so the whole team ships better, not just me.
  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Tailwind
  • PostgreSQL
  • Azure
  • LLMs

Building something ambitious?

If you need senior engineering to design the architecture and ship the product, especially anything AI-powered, I'd like to hear about it.

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