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Steven GassertSG

Steven Gassert

ex-Amazon Full Stack Engineer

€565/day
Geneva, CH
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Steven

ex-Amazon full stack engineer who has built front end and backend applications enjoyed by millions of customers. I specialize in React, AWS, Javascript, Typescript, Node.js although I've used many tools, frameworks, and programming languages so please inquire with your project needs!
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Geneva (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Amazon
    Front End Engineer (Full Stack Responsibilities)
    November 2021 - June 2024 (2 years and 7 months)
    Arlington, United States
    - Designed and lead a team of engineers to deliver an API which serves billions of daily requests to reduce the largest contentful paint metric on https://console.aws.amazon.com
    - Lead a team of front end engineers to deliver a website for AWS builders so that they could more efficiently deliver new products on https://console.aws.amazon.com. This website included mechanisms for community feedback, contribution, and documentation feedback.
    - Delivered features and maintained the front end, backend APIs, and infrastructure of a tool responsible for allowing AWS builders to release new products on https://console.aws.amazon.com
  • IBM
    Front End Engineer (full stack responsibilities)
    December 2018 - November 2021 (2 years and 11 months)
    Boston, United States
    - Led the technical design / breakdown of new features for IBM’s talent acquisition platform.
    - Enabled 2000 recruiters to manage candidates through all stages of the application life cycle.
    - Designed, built, and maintained APIs to consume vastly different data sources and output uniform information about IBM job postings and the people who applied to them.
    - Coordinated with teams across IBM to provide a shared feature management platform. Used a tiered roll out strategy for new functionality to receive feedback earlier in the development lifecycle.
    - Created an open-source component library so clients could easily integrate data from one of IBM cloud’s AI offerings into their own user interfaces.
    - Participated in mentoring a fellow colleague and designed a project to help them learn the fundamentals of software engineering and bring a valuable service to coordinate tickets within their customer support team.
  • IBM
    Site Reliability Engineer
    September 2017 - December 2018 (1 year and 3 months)
    Boston, United States
    - Identified gaps in the way the web application for IBM's on-premise AI service was monitored. Successfully onboarded the larger Site Reliability Group on to New Relic which allowed for the first time confidence that on-premise users had 99.99% uptime when accessing their web application.
    - Took initiative and contributed PR's to the front end repository of the product where I was a Site reliability engineer.

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Education

  • Bachelor of Science
    Bachelor of Science

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