viveret steele

Ex Senior Full-Stack Software Developer at Stack Overflow

Pronouns: She/her/they/them

Mostly Rust/C#/C++/Java

Last Updated: 6th of August, 2024

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Work Experience

Full-Stack Software Developer at Stack Exchange / Stack Overflow (July 2019 - August 2024) (Details)

  • Worked on Talent team for Developer Jobs, Developer Stories, and Company pages.
  • Helped improve the job board, hiring & brand awareness platform used worldwide by devs and software companies.
  • Provided insight on software development, project planning, and user centered design.
  • Worked on architecture and internal systems for Talent & Ads.
  • Worked on integrations with other companies & systems. Lots of data moving in & out for jobs.
  • Provided business insight by writing case-by-case parameterized SQL queries for dashboards.
  • Worked on Stack Overflow for Teams (free, business, enterprise tiers)
  • Led an affinity group for women and other marginalized genders in tech. Focused on intersectionality, transparency, and camaraderie.

Full-Stack Software Engineer at McKinstry (June 2016 - May 2019) (Details)

  • Started as an intern to develop an Excel script to push/pull data to/from SQL Server.
  • Researched problem space, conducted interviews to find and determine solutions.
  • Proposed solution as technical design document with tech stack, data schema, and architecture.
  • Hired as full time employee due to immediate successes and goals succeeded.
  • Iterated in similar fashion on side projects / expanding the scope of the project.
  • Delegated smaller project to a summer intern, on break from university. Mentored as well.
  • Created documentation, presentations, workshops for engineers to use the software.
  • Besides the summer intern, I was the only developer on the team my entire duration.
  • I worked primarily with mechanical engineers, project managers, and data analysts.

Computer Science and Math Tutor (2015 - 2017)

  • Provided one on one personal tutoring to students who needed help or extra assistance with Computer Science, communication, and problem solving and reasoning.
  • Was a Computer Science tutor at Green River College (3.5 months), freelance tutor (14 months), UW Tacoma (8 months).

Skills (Details)

  • Parallelism, data structures and algorithms, software design and architecture, scaling
  • Integrations, testing, engineering physics, machine learning, AI, math
  • Video editing, audio editing, graphic design, image editing, code collaboration

Technologies (Details)

Languages

C / C++, C#, Java, Assembly 80x86, HTML / CSS, PHP, SQL, Lua, VB.NET, Java / Type Script, Python

Operating Systems / Platforms

Linux, Android, Raspberry Pi, Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10/Server

IDEs / Editors

IntelliJ, Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse, LibreOffice / Microsoft Office Suite

Relevant Technologies

Git, GNU make, gradle, gdb, ssh, Apache, latex, IIS, ElasticSearch

Frameworks & SDKs

OpenGL (Ver. 1, 3, 4), GLES, Bullet Physics, Win32, XLib, POSIX, Boost, Swing, jQuery, tiny-dnn

Accomplishments

  • Achieved 1st place at the Seattle XPRT Women’s Code-A-Thon, where I built an Android GPU benchmark workload and received $2,500
  • Won #HackHarassment at Def Hacks for a project called SafeMessage that protects the user from harassing, abusive, or malicious messages by using machine learning
  • Received honorable mentions at 3 Seattle CodeDay competitions

Education (Details)

University of Washington, Tacoma (Sept. 2015 to June 2017)

Bachelor’s in Computer Science. Completed:

  • User Oriented Design, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Software Quality Assurance, Mobile Applications, Human Computer Interfaces
  • Discrete Math and Structures I & II, Data Structures and Algorithms, Formal Models in CS
  • Java Practicum - small applications, C System Programming, Machine Organization, Computer Architecture, Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Acquisition (machine learning)

Green River Community College (Sept. 2013 to June 2015)

Associate’s in Computer Science. Completed:

  • Calculus I - IV, Statistics, C++, and Java I & II
  • Chemistry with Lab, Engineering Physics with Lab I - III