Steve Yegge is an independent software engineer, writer, and adviser helping engineering teams adopt AI. He created Beads and Gas Town and coauthored Vibe Coding with Gene Kim. His career spans engineering and leadership roles at Sourcegraph, Grab, Google, Amazon, and Geoworks.
Steve Yegge is an independent software engineer, writer, and adviser helping engineering teams adopt AI. He created Beads and Gas Town and coauthored Vibe Coding with Gene Kim. His career spans engineering and leadership roles at Sourcegraph, Grab, Google, Amazon, and Geoworks.
Career
IAdvisor and Consultant at Independent from 2026-06 to PresentAdvises engineering teams on AI adoption and develops agent tools, including Beads and Gas Town.
Software Engineer at Sourcegraph from 2024-02 to 2025-10Worked on AI-assisted developer tools. Previously served as Head of Engineering from September 2022 to February 2024.GHead of Engineering, Ads & Monetisation, Personalization, and Data Insights at Grab from 2018 to 2020
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google until 2018Worked at Google from 2005 to 2018, including developer infrastructure and the Grok code knowledge graph.ASenior Manager, Software Development at Amazon until 2005Worked at Amazon from 1998 to 2005, progressing from technical program management into software development leadership.
GEngineering Project Manager at Geoworks until 1997Worked at Geoworks from 1992 to 1997 as a software engineer and engineering project manager.