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I’m Steven Young, a seasoned software engineer specializing in building performant, scalable web applications across the full stack. I enjoy delivering robust front-end experiences and reliable backend services, with a strong focus on data visualization, UI/UX, and cloud-based delivery. Over the years I’ve collaborated with teams at Google, Nest, SeeClickFix, and several studios and agencies, creating tools for analytics, media processing, and consumer-facing experiences. I thrive in collaborative environments, mentoring colleagues and driving projects from concept to production. Beyond coding, I’ve led technical initiatives as a CTO/co-founder, taught web development as an instructor, and built startups from the ground up. My work emphasizes clean architecture, maintainable code, and measurable user impact, from dashboards and visualizations to CMS platforms and e-commerce integrations.…I’m Steven Young, a seasoned software engineer specializing in building performant, scalable web applications across the full stack. I enjoy delivering robust front-end experiences and reliable backend services, with a strong focus on data visualization, UI/UX, and cloud-based delivery. Over the years I’ve collaborated with teams at Google, Nest, SeeClickFix, and several studios and agencies, creating tools for analytics, media processing, and consumer-facing experiences. I thrive in collaborative environments, mentoring colleagues and driving projects from concept to production. Beyond coding, I’ve led technical initiatives as a CTO/co-founder, taught web development as an instructor, and built startups from the ground up. My work emphasizes clean architecture, maintainable code, and measurable user impact, from dashboards and visualizations to CMS platforms and e-commerce integrations.

Steven Young

Full Stack Developer, Web Developer, Front-End Developer, +2

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I’m Steven Young, a seasoned software engineer specializing in building performant, scalable web applications across the full stack. I enjoy delivering robust front-end experiences and reliable backend services, with a strong focus on data visualization, UI/UX, and cloud-based delivery. Over the years I’ve collaborated with teams at Google, Nest, SeeClickFix, and several studios and agencies, creating tools for analytics, media processing, and consumer-facing experiences. I thrive in collaborative environments, mentoring colleagues and driving projects from concept to production. Beyond coding, I’ve led technical initiatives as a CTO/co-founder, taught web development as an instructor, and built startups from the ground up. My work emphasizes clean architecture, maintainable code, and measurable user impact, from dashboards and visualizations to CMS platforms and e-commerce integrations.…I’m Steven Young, a seasoned software engineer specializing in building performant, scalable web applications across the full stack. I enjoy delivering robust front-end experiences and reliable backend services, with a strong focus on data visualization, UI/UX, and cloud-based delivery. Over the years I’ve collaborated with teams at Google, Nest, SeeClickFix, and several studios and agencies, creating tools for analytics, media processing, and consumer-facing experiences. I thrive in collaborative environments, mentoring colleagues and driving projects from concept to production. Beyond coding, I’ve led technical initiatives as a CTO/co-founder, taught web development as an instructor, and built startups from the ground up. My work emphasizes clean architecture, maintainable code, and measurable user impact, from dashboards and visualizations to CMS platforms and e-commerce integrations.

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I’m Steven Young, a seasoned software engineer specializing in building performant, scalable web applications across the full stack. I enjoy delivering robust front-end experiences and reliable backend services, with a strong focus on data visualization, UI/UX, and cloud-based delivery. Over the years I’ve collaborated with teams at Google, Nest, SeeClickFix, and several studios and agencies, creating tools for analytics, media processing, and consumer-facing experiences. I thrive in collaborative environments, mentoring colleagues and driving projects from concept to production.

Beyond coding, I’ve led technical initiatives as a CTO/co-founder, taught web development as an instructor, and built startups from the ground up. My work emphasizes clean architecture, maintainable code, and measurable user impact, from dashboards and visualizations to CMS platforms and e-commerce integrations.

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Work Experience

Software Engineer at Google

September 1, 2021 - September 1, 2023

Contract via InfoObjects, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA. Developed front-end web applications for Google Cloud datacenter technicians, including interactive graphical data visualizations and dashboards for troubleshooting, logging, and system process tracking. Built gRPC-based web apps to fetch route and log data for visual representations of routes and interactive log viewers for process routing and event logging.

UX Engineer at Google

March 1, 2020 - December 1, 2020

Contract position in New York, NY. Developed front-end web applications for UX designers and researchers. Built prototypes of candidate UI components and systems to track user interactions and satisfaction for sentiment analysis of prototypes of interactive advertising. Implemented logging for engagement metrics (time, UI activity, scrolls, clicks) and integrated with research surveys.

Web Tools Developer at Nest Labs / Google

September 1, 2017 - September 1, 2019

Developed front-end web applications for media perception algorithm teams. Built tools for algorithm developers including media labeling and data quality tools; created a multimedia viewer library with configurable interactions; built labeling tools to create golden truth datasets and measure quality, with configurability for true/false, multiple choice, and range questions, plus custom viewers and spectrograms.

Software Engineer at John McNeil Studio

April 1, 2016 - August 1, 2016

Contract web application development and administration for Bay Area creative marketing agencies. Built content management systems for marketing and advertising teams to manage user-generated content and social media integrations; built storefronts for posting on various e-commerce platforms. Full-stack development and administration on multiple CMS/e-commerce platforms.

Software Engineer at Propane Studio

August 1, 2015 - February 1, 2016

Contract web application development and administration; built content management systems and storefronts for e-commerce platforms; full-stack development across CMS and e-commerce integrations.

Technical Lead at Edelman Digital

October 1, 2014 - May 1, 2015

Technical lead for development and administration of websites and CMS applications for high-profile PR clients; built CMS templates, managed high-traffic installations of Wordpress, Umbraco, and Sitecore; clients included Microsoft, Adobe, Starbucks.

Instructor at AcademyX

September 1, 2014 - August 1, 2017

Instructor teaching web development topics including JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, PHP. Delivered short courses and multi-week immersive programs for private students and companies.

CTNext Fellow at SeeClickFix

January 1, 2014 - July 1, 2014

CTNext startup fellowship embedded with SeeClickFix, a location-based software company; gained experience in startup building and growth.

Co-Founder, CTO at Placing Literature LLC

June 1, 2013 - January 1, 2020

Co-founded crowd-sourced database of scene descriptions of real-world locations mentioned in fiction; authored and maintained the website application and web clients. Built with Google App Engine, Django, BackboneJS; Python 2.7, CoffeeScript; used Google Maps API.

Software Engineer at Thismoment Inc.

September 1, 2011 - January 1, 2013

Developed social media marketing web and mobile applications for Fortune 500 clients; integrated social content from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube for advertising campaigns; built Facebook apps, YouTube channels, and SPAs for campaigns.

Application Engineer at Google

March 1, 2010 - July 1, 2011

Internal Google intranet applications; bug fixes and new features; supported legacy LAMP stack and contributed to development of replacement applications on Google App Engine platform using NoSQL DB technologies.

Web Applications Developer at Platinum Group Media

August 1, 2009 - November 1, 2009

Developed applications for online affiliate advertising system; CakePHP 1.2; PayPal API integration; internal mailing list PHPList integration; integrated WYSIWYG editor and backend processes.

Software Engineer at eXOsports/TodoFut

September 1, 2003 - August 1, 2009

Designed and developed database-driven applications for e-commerce consultancy; integrated shipping and inventory with Amazon, Yahoo Stores, eBay; used Perl 5.8, PHP 4/5, JavaScript, mod_perl, Apache; MySQL; FreeBSD.