# Selena Walsh Smith > Software Engineer at Western Alliance Bank Location: Scottsdale, Arizona, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/selenawalshsmith Full Stack Software Engineer 💻 I am a passionate engineer with 5 years of experience developing functionally robust applications that are intuitive to use. I have extensive experience both in developing REST APIs and front end React features. Taking a business requirement from a vague user story to a fully functioning feature is a piece of cake to me. I can carry out requests containing a certain level of ambiguity and I know when to ask for clarifying information to ensure the final product meets the expectations of my stakeholders. I contribute more than just my technical knowledge to the projects I work on. Coming from the start up world, I know how to wear many hats and take initiative to ensure feature requests are integrated appropriately into existing system architecture and build upon business logic. I am known for taking ownership over my work and establishing myself as a domain expert in epics I am assigned. Repeatedly I have been told by teammates that they enjoy working with me because they know they can trust me to produce high quality code in a short turnaround time. If I sound like someone who would be a good fit for your team, please feel free to reach out! ## Work Experience ### Staff Engineer II @ Western Alliance Bank Jan 2024 – Present | Phoenix, Arizona, United States ### Software Engineer @ Swell Energy Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 -- Leveraged an extensive technology stack including but not limited to MongoDB, Node.js, Meteor, React and various external integrations like Docusign and fin tech services to deliver and maintain features on an enterprise level application in the solar energy industry. -- Gained and utilized expertise in the financial domain of the application, providing docusign integration for financial contracts and calculating solar project financial quotes and estimates -- Designed and implemented RESTful APIs using Node.js and Express.js to facilitate efficient communication across the stack in a microfrontend/microservice architecture. Developed Web Socket calls in Meteor to communicate CRUD operations in real-time between front end components, back end business logic, and database -- Maintained and improved a MongoDB database with schema mapping shared between multiple applications -- Troubleshoot and maintain CI/CD pipelines in AWS for automated build and deployment processes, including Elastic Beanstalk -- Actively participated in sprint planning, daily stand up, sprint retrospectives, backlog refinement and functional/technical analysis meetings to help shape the direction the team works towards and foster collaboration within the team ### Software Engineer @ Climate Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote -- Individual contributor on two React/TypeScript SPAs; utilizing micro frontend architecture, functional stateless components, hooks, GraphQL integration, Cypress, Material UI, and i18next -- Converted JSX/SCSS UI to Material UI for 75% of the application -- Refactored and enhanced all automated Cypress.io UI testing to align with Material UI generated DOM -- Provide expertise in debugging and determining root cause of any issues/bugs raised by stakeholders -- Delivered highly interactive, full bodied Material UI JSX features in an Agile SaFe environment -- Worked with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them to features -- Gained experience defining goals, scope, timeline of a large feature using JIRA and Excel -- Divided assignments into Program Increment (PI) timeboxes, and periodically shared progress reports with stakeholders to highlight key milestones ### Software Developer @ General Motors Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Chandler, Arizona, United States -- Enhanced customer loyalty tool by developing APIs and microservices, utilizing test driven development -- Wrote API wrappers to integrate external REST services between servers -- Developed an enterprise sized system of automated emails triggered by account changes -- Main point of contact and ownership over all email campaign related features -- Developed an API for customers to find the potential loyalty point earn amount on a new vehicle, provided support in onboarding this API to external applications and other processes internal to customer loyalty -- Provided oncall support for debugging and addressing production issues -- Supported 12+ teams consuming APIs migrate to Azure API Management by providing expertise about API configuration ### Web Development Intern @ EDUrange Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 -- Collaborated to maintain and enhance a web app used by undergraduate cybersecurity courses -- Took initiative to refactor styling using Bootstrap, in addition to identifying and implementing other front end enhancements -- Addressed troubleshooting bugs, maintaining code, and documenting best practices for future developers -- Created codelabs to walk students through various cybersecurity challenges and labs ## Education ### Bachelors of Science in Computer Science The Evergreen State College Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/selenawalshsmith --- Source: https://flows.cv/selenawalshsmith JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/selenawalshsmith/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22