Stephen

Weessies

Lead Software Engineer

Experience

Driscoll's | Lead Application Developer

March 2019 — Current | Wattsonville, CA

  • Started new team and created a shared component library to enable faster development of the dozens of applications needed by the business.
  • Led team through the pandemic and “great resignation” with ultimately greater performance; team is spread out over many countries and all work from home now.
  • Created architectures and solutions to handle multi-lingual global applications with major impacts on food safety and customer relationships.
  • Started company goals of moving applications and architecture into AWS for our custom applications.
  • Worked closely with the business, even going into the fields with the growers to see how requirements should be made to enable all business needs.

CoStar - BizBuySell / BizQuest / LoopNet | Senior Software Engineer

April 2015 — Februrary 2019 | San Luis Obispo, CA

  • Full-stack development of several large websites and scrum leader helping tocoordinate sprint sessions.
  • Mentored all new members and showed them how our applications worked as well as taught general programming techniques.
  • Worked on migration of older MVVM C# Application towards a modern REST API and Angular application.
  • Researched and Implemented Schema components for website to allow Google to crawl the application better and show widgets in search results.

Lockheed Martin | Software Engineer

June 2009 — March 2015 | San Luis Obispo, CA

  • Led C# application with over 2 million lines for flight control of many UAVs.
  • Led team testing of all flight critical software. Worked to develop a standard set of aproximately 200 tests which generated automated documentation.
  • Trained as backup flight captain for test flights of large UAV.

Volunteer Projects

McCroskey Music | Non-Profit Music Website

  • Older site; created in the hay-day of jQuery. Ministry music site for an old teacher friend that connects many people through positive music for learning Spanish and ministry.

Awards

2020 | 1st | Company security competition

2018 | Most Assists | Helped others the most during Bug-A-Thon

2018 | MVP | Most bugs fixed in two days during Bug-A-Thon

2017 | MVP | Most bugs fixed in two days during Bug-A-Thon

Skills

PROGRAMMING

Proficient:

JavaScript • CSS • HTML

Experienced:

C# • LaTeX • SQL • ZPL


LIBRARIES/FRAMEWORKS

React • Node.js • Expo • MaterialUI • jQuery


TOOLS/PLATFORMS

Git • Visual Studio Code • Visual Studio • Lucidchart • Postman • Todoist (Enlightend) • Jira


Education

CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY

BACHELOR'S IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Graduated 2013 | San Luis Obispo, CA

Mentor | 2 years of mentoring incoming freshman

Project Lead | Northrop Grumman helicopter ground camera tracking system

Senior Project | LaTeX generated documentation for Lockheed Martin testing of mission critical software for flight


Certifications

AWS Cloud Practitioner

OKTA Certified Professional


References

Available Upon Request