I'm Steven Skoczen.

Welcome to my résumé.

Skills

Best ever

Awesome

Solid

Novice

Design

Front-end

Back-end

Devops

DBA

Server admin

Project management

I write really excellent Python, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. I've spent the past five years living and breathing django on the backend, and vanilla.js, angular, jQuery, and backbone on the front. I can knock out pixel-perfect CSS, even for IE. I've also been a web developer for 15+ years, so there are a lot of other languages and skills in the toolbox. UI. UX. Devops. Server admin. ASP. PHP. Project management. Agile. Automation. CI builds. Robots. Command-line tools. I know mysql and postgresql and redis. I know memcached and rabbitmq and celery. I check my life into git.

I've also written and released a number of open source projects, like will, salad, autoscalebot, django-zebra, django-ajax-uploader, django-longer-username, and more - and grown the communities around them. I've built entire large codebases from scratch, and waded into years of technical debt that made grown men cry and come out with working, tested code and better abstractions.

Experience

I've also been lucky to found, work at, and work with some amazing companies. Most recently, that's:

GreenKahuna

Senior Engineer, Dev Team Lead

Took a team of green, talented developers and made app-making warriors. Built an open dev culture, with monthly kick-backs to iterate how we worked. Architected, led code reviews, and moved us from minimal testing to continuous deployment on E2E tests. Wrote and open-sourced will, a python chat bot that handles devops, workflow, and fun.

Building Energy

Senior Engineer

Designed a decoupled pub-sub application architecture, and built it in a few weeks. Built the deploy system, a generalized data importer, Yeti, an amazingly helpful and friendly bot, and flint, a dev-facing command-line tool. Drove culture from no tests to functional coverage and unit tests on all new code.

Wieden+Kennedy

Creative Technical Lead

Pushed creative digital thinking on the Coke, Laika, and Nike Golf accounts. Worked on a P&G global campaign, helped conceptualize and code the ParaNorman campaign, and watched my work in last year's Super Bowl. Started a monthly Tech Breakfast series to keep creatives current with the latest tech trends.

GoodCloud

Co-Founder, CEO

Built a full-featured CRM, donor and volunteer management platform for small nonprofits in four months, with one hand tied behind my back at a day job. Open-sourced a number of libraries from the codebase. Made some small nonprofits very happy.

I've also led teams of programmers at UCSD, founded another two companies, run a sole proprietorship for the better part of a decade, and have a degree in Environmental Engineering from Cornell. I also wrote the International Ethobotany Database, after two summers in Perú interviewing shamans. It's been an interesting ride.

Code

I'm looking for interesting problems and smart, smart people to work with. I want to learn things and teach things, and most of all - make things. Good things. Things that make some human somewhere really happy. It might be that my next place is with you. Let's talk, and find out!

My email is [email protected] and my phone number is 607-262-0880. I look forward to talking with you.

I'm Steven Skoczen.

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