# Stephen Weessies

> Staff Software Engineer at Lula

Location: Gilroy, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/stephenweessies

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

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ GAIL
Jan 2024 – Present | Miami, Florida, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ LULA
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Miami, Florida, United States
- Started new front-end team along with another shared component library and quickly got designs aligned across multiple applications.
- Interviewed for all new positions for frontend development.
- Created Self-Onboarding Flows that met all regulatory and cut onboarding time from an average of 1 day to 30 minutes.
- Led the charge on reorganization as we grew from early start-up and made a team of 10 that span frontend, design, and CRM.
- Pivoted to focus work on new product that uses AI models and has a better UX (IMHO) than all of our competitors.
- Ensured a seamless product release by efficiently tackling full-stack development tasks using Next.js.

### Lead Application Developer @ Driscoll's
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Watsonville, California, United States
- 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.

### Senior Application Developer @ Driscoll's
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Watsonville, CA
- Leading my global team with creation of a unified component library utilizing other unified component libraries with business logic embedded so as to speed up development and reduce bug counts.
 - Mentoring members of my team, getting a list of developmental goals and courses that could help them along their career.
 - Working closely with the business to determine how their requirements can turn into workable requirements for all teams on a project
 - Starting our companies development in AWS with a simplified development pipeline for future apps to use

### Senior Software Engineer @ CoStar Group
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Luis Obispo, California, United States
- Helped team with sprint planning
 - Mentored team members to allow our team to grow in knowledge quicker

### Software Engineer @ CoStar Group
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Luis Obispo, California Area
- Work on several applications that server thousands of customers and many thousand unique visitors every day
 - Implemented better user security for users that reduced the risk to the business as well
 - Worked on determining best framework to use coming from jQuery based applications

### Software Engineer @ Lockheed Martin
Jan 2009 – Jan 2015
I work on a large application that deals with complex issues over lossy data connections. I also extensively work on testing the system as a whole.


## Education
### BS in Computer Engineering
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sweessies

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Last updated: 2026-04-01