# Sezgi Beck > Staff Software Engineer · Front-End · Full-Stack · React, TypeScript, Next.js, GraphQL Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sezgi I've been writing front-end code for 20+ years. I'm fascinated by AI, cognitive science, alternative education, and mindful communication. I have published articles, tutorial series, and a Udemy course on JavaScript development. I love building, and teaching how to build, user-friendly, interactive, and delightful web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Next.js, React Native). I have deep experience with startups, and was an early hire at enterprise social networking startup Yammer, which was acquired by Microsoft. I love the creative and collaborative aspects of starting up a new technology, seeing it come to life and touch people's lives. Feel free to connect if you're interested in tech innovation, educational content creation, or if you want to nerd out about sci-fi movies or TV shows! Portfolio: https://sez.codes ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ StackPack Jan 2024 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ Viable Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Worked with a small team of full-stack engineers, building a product that performs AI-driven analysis of customer feedback. ● Built/revamped the front end for most of the in-app single-page UX, increasing ARR from $0 to ~$300k. ● Implemented complex navigation for the left sidebar, redid the layout for the main content with reusable content cards and horizontal scrollers, and added a header section with new charts using the Recharts library. ● Refactored the API calls to use a new API that queried Algolia in the back-end, which was implemented to make our data more consistent across the app. ● Implemented a citation drawer, a page-level MUI drawer that opens when the user clicks on a quote, and shows a citation to reveal where the AI got the data from, in order to gain the user's trust. Used React Context to allow reusability across the app and avoid prop drilling. ● Implemented Workspaces feature, which allows users to create custom views of their data, and share them with their team. This included building charts that used data from across different AI reports. ● Acted as team lead with project planning & CI/CD, code reviews, and 1:1s. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Quartz Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Briefly worked on Quartz's CMS-powered GraphQL & React app, before it was acquired by G/O Media. ### Developer Advocate @ Hasura Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Built demo apps and created technical content on topics that appeal to developers. Owned everything from ideation to research, writing, and video production. Highlights: ● Gave a talk on Relay at Hasura Conf, and wrote a deep-dive blog post on Relay, to promote Hasura's new feature adding Relay support to their GraphQL engine. ● Built a mini Yelp clone with React, GraphQL, and Hasura, to market Hasura to front-end developers. Wrote a tutorial series and recorded a video series, which were published on FreeCodeCamp. ● Created a demo app and tutorial video showing how to implement role-based authorization using Hasura, to help developers understand access control and authorization. ### sezU @ - Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area ● Ran my own business building software engineering courseware. ● Created a Udemy course (1k+ students, 4+ star rating) on how to build a full-stack mobile app: https://www.udemy.com/course/how-to-make-a-full-stack-react-native-app-with-easy-backend/?referralCode=E944B7F521E0A6B88CD2 ### Senior Software Engineer @ StackShare Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Built front-end features for a tech stack & software discovery startup. Highlights: ● Doubled user engagement and weekly retention with project that allowed developers to make structured “Stack Decision” posts to their feeds. Used React useReducer hook to manage the complex state, validation, and flow of the decisions widget. ● Built interactive UI for new user onboarding, using React Context to highlight different areas of the page as the user completed the steps. ● Built the front-end for company profiles, which included everything from the company's tech stack, to media resources and team members. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Mode Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area ● Implemented complete responsive redesign of marketing pages. ● Developed and debugged d3 analytics charts & contributed to open source nvd3 project. ### SDE II @ Microsoft Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area (See Yammer below. Yammer was acquired by Microsoft in July 2012.) ### Front-End Engineer @ Yammer, Inc. Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area Early front-end engineer hire at unicorn enterprise social networking startup. ● Built features using YamJS, an in-house front-end framework similar to Backbone.js. Project highlights: user and group hovercards, related groups, draggable lists, signup flow, Yamkit UI kit. ● Established best practices on the front-end team & conducted candidate interviews. ### Web Developer @ Real Girls Media Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | San Francisco Bay Area ● Implemented cross-browser campaigns and complete redesign for high volume online publishing network. ### Web Designer / Developer @ Boxbe Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | San Francisco Bay Area ● Owned all front-end development for email allow-listing startup. ### Founder & Web Designer/Developer @ 10 Startups Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 | San Francisco Bay Area ● Designed ​and ​implemented ​the ​front-end ​for ​several ​web apps. ● Handled ​multiple ​roles ​as ​part ​of ​a ​two-person ​team ​running ​a ​business. ### Computing Assistant / Tutor @ University of Chicago Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 ● Assisted students in using and troubleshooting Mac OS X computers. ## Education ### BA in Biological Sciences - Neuroscience University of Chicago ### Massage Therapist and Health Educator in Massage Therapy/Therapeutic Massage National Holistic Institute ### Professional Thai Massage for Health - 165 hours in Massage Therapy/Therapeutic Massage Watpo Thai Traditional Massage School - Salaya, Thailand ### Üsküdar Amerikan Lisesi / Üsküdar American Academy ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sezgiu - Website: https://sez.codes --- Source: https://flows.cv/sezgi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sezgi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01