Résumé

Stephen Smith

stephen.smith@AlwaysMoreHats.com — 240.780.8268
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Skills

Programming and Scripting: JavaScript (Skilled), ES6+ (Skilled), TypeScript (Skilled), SQL (Skilled), Ruby on Rails (Proficient), C#/.NET (Proficient), HTML/CSS

Libraries and Frameworks: React.js (Skilled), Redux (Skilled), Sass (Skilled),
Jest (Skilled), Node.js (Proficient), Redux-Sagas (Proficient)

Development Tools: Jira (Trained), Git/GitHub (Proficient), Visual Studio Code, Trello, SourceTree

Interpersonal: People management, Addressing process feedback, Setting rules and procedures

Work Experience

Lead Front End Developer: Truebill                                                                                     Nov 2020 – May 2021
Front end developer (JS/TS/React Native+Redux) for a financial planning phone application.

  • Led creation of a Component Library to standardize web components for our app.

Senior Software Engineer: Catalist                                                                                October 2019 – Nov 2020
Front-end developer (JS/TS/React+Redux; Java; PostgreSQL) for a voter data analytics application.

  • Led team in re-architecture effort to bring our React codebase up to modern standards.
  • Improved our testing capabilities for more flexible tests with fewer misleading results.

Associate Software Developer: Lab49                                                                                June 2018 – July 2019
Front-end developer (JS/TS/React+Redux) in a consultant role in financial technology.

  • Taught other developer front-end paradigms for a project with high-budget clients.
  • Served as half the development effort for a redesign of a large investment firm’s login page.

Web Development Team Lead: Barquin International                                          March 2017 – June 2018
Manager and developer (JS/React; Rails; SQL/Oracle) of a small Agile web development team.

  • Led projects through design, planning, development, and release stages using Agile.
  • Customized our Jira instance to allow our developers and clients to better organize.
  • Met with client to plan, communicate status, and address concerns of current projects.

Web Software Developer: Barquin International                                               January 2015 – March 2017
Full-stack developer (JS/React; Rails; SQL/Oracle) for social and economic data websites.

  • Used the React framework to build web applications to explore and display data.
  • Wrote scripts to automate complex deployment tasks to staging and production servers.

Full-stack developer (HTML/JS; PHP; SQL) for a project to add gamification in academia.

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT): Rochester, NY

  • B.S. Game Design & Development, Minor in Web Development
  • Graduated May 2013