# Steven Reed > Software Engineer Location: Austin, Texas, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/stevenreed Former Sr. Staff Software Engineer at PayPal with 10 years development experience - 6 in enterprise scale software. Identified as a high-performing technologist and selected for PayPal’s Technology Leadership Program. Left my role at PayPal to build full-time in the Web3 space. Most recently held a front-end focused Sr. Software Engineer role where I delivered a bespoke design system and component library at Mutiny, a Series B MarTech startup. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ SmarterDx Jan 2023 – Present ### Sr. Software Engineer @ Mutiny Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 UX Foundation Team Hired as a founding member of the company's UX foundation team with the mission to improve front-end development processes, deliver consistent experiences to customers, and decrease the time to market for new features. • Developed React component library replacing multiple third-party UI libraries to increase developer productivity and enable rapid prototyping that followed enforced company design principles • Delivered and released site refresh following company redesign Technology: • Node • React • Javascript • Typescript • CSS • HTML ### Web3 Founder / Engineer @ Unknown Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Austin, Texas, United States Developed NFT trading software and tooling facilitating ~ $20M of trading volume while ideating on potential opportunities in the Web3 space. Technology: • Node • React • Typescript • Javascript • Solidity • Blockchain • HTML • CSS • MongoDB • RedisDB (cache) • Heroku ### Sr. Staff Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Member of Technical Staff (MTS2) - PayPal Checkout and Beyond * Frontend and web technologies lead working to reduce checkout latency by ~90% Technology: • Node • React • Javascript • Typescript • Webpack • Caching • CSS • HTML ### Staff Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Member of Technical Staff (MTS1) • Developed scraping and news aggregation tools for PayPal Ventures team • Developed and maintained a company-wide innovation tournament platform Technology: • Node • React • Javascript • Typescript • SQL • GCP • CSS • HTML ### Technology Leadership Program - 2022 Cohort @ PayPal Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, CA 2-year rotational program consisting of four 6 month rotations across the company and subsidiaries with the intent of developing technically proficient leaders at PayPal. Rotation 1 (January 2020): Product Manager, Issuance & Tokenization Platform - San Jose, CA Rotation 2 (June 2020): Associate, Global Go-To-Market Strategy - San Jose, CA Rotation 3 (January 2021): Associate, PayPal Ventures - San Jose, CA Rotation 4 (June 2021): Operations Associate, BCDC (Blockchain, Crypto, & Digital Currencies) - San Jose, CA ### Software Engineer 3 @ PayPal Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas Area Full-stack software engineer & front-end lead developing solutions that scale for enterprise merchants. • Front-End Lead • Inter-Team Liaison • Mentor to recent college grad Developed Test Account Creation Tool • Enabled employees to create hundreds of accounts with very specific characteristics within seconds. Prior to the development of this tool, this process took engineers 2 minutes of manual work per account created. • Facilitated testing with large data sets otherwise impossible to create on demand. Without this tool it was impossible to conduct proper performance, load, and functional testing. • Offered a command line interface and API for use in variety of environments • Recognized by leadership as a breakthrough for testing large data in client facing applications Additional Work: • Managed deprecation of outdated ui library and contributed to development of new replacement • Supervised transition of team's project to new team and supported team through 3-month transition period • Developed NodeJS services built with scalability and performance as primary guiding principles ### Software Engineer 2 @ PayPal Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas Contributed as a full-stack engineer across all facets of NodeJS applications • Developed "smart table" ui component using ReactJS for displaying large quantities of data. Included filter, search, sort, and other custom functionality. • Introduced build and compiling techniques with Webpack reducing production application bundle by ~60% • Built out shared modules aggregating frequently used code snippets into single source for consistency, reusability, and easier maintainability • Migrated legacy application from DustJS to ReactJS Major contributor and maintainer of company wide React UI library • Implemented testing framework, React unit tests, and code coverage • Developed first standard drawer ui component used at PayPal Champion of code quality and testability across applications • Developed and implemented shareable code linting config for consistency across team’s code • Introduced code quality / coverage gates for PR’s • Crafted pull request template creating consistency and simplifying search for code changes • Developed an internal tool for creating multiple test accounts with desired attributes. ### Vice President of Ecommerce @ Outdoor Pro Shop Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Cotati, CA Promoted to VP of Ecommerce in 2015 after serving as Web Designer from 2011-2015. Duties included oversight and management of all web based business. Responsibilities: • Analyzed and restructured 3rd party technologies essential to business operations including introduction of CRM, remarketing and inventory management software • Created best practices and style guide to encourage consistency in UI/UX • Developed long-term strategy and goal setting procedures establishing metrics for large-scale initiates Achievements: • Approximately 350% increase in annual sales since 2011 • Increased annual order volume 200% since 2011 • Increased newsletter open rates from 17% to 29% with a response rate doubling the industry standard ### Web Designer, Marketing @ Outdoor Pro Shop Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 Web design role responsible for all client facing materials focused on marketing efforts. Tasked with design and development, execution, and reporting of marketing campaigns across several mediums. Responsibilities: • Developed and maintained site design using HTML, CSS, and jQuery • Designed customer interaction email templates and implemented automated event-driven marketing email using Optin Monster and Mailchimp • Composed advanced SQL queries extracting customer and sales data for refined targeting • Graphic design using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop • Created, implemented, and executed of standard practices for content creation and product presentation • Established measurable response rates, conversion rates, and ROI for social media, email marketing, and advertising campaigns ## Education ### B.S. in Textile Science University of California, Davis Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 ### Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Hack Reactor ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stevenreedt - Website: http://stevetreed.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/stevenreed JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stevenreed/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22