# Wes Risenmay > Staff Software Engineer at MX Location: Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/wesrisenmay I enjoy building reliable software that users can trust. I put significant effort into building consensus on how things should be built and improving the quality of the engineers around me. I've implemented CICD at multiple companies with enough automated test coverage to have full confidence in releases. I'm a full stack engineer who specializes in frontend. I've been building React UIs since 2015. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ MX Jan 2024 – Present | Lehi, Utah, United States ### Senior Software Engineer 2 @ MX Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Lehi, Utah, United States Tech lead for the Universal Connect Project: https://github.com/Universal-Connect-Project Turned a project that was struggling on direction, velocity, and quality into a solid team with consistent velocity. Led the effort to implement Architecture Decision Records to build consensus on how things should be built. Reviewed every PR to the Universal Connect Project repos. Drastically increased the amount and quality of tests as well as the confidence of developers to be able to make changes. https://github.com/Universal-Connect-Project/architecture-decision-record/tree/main/architectureDecisionRecords Architected the ucp-hosted-app repo: https://github.com/Universal-Connect-Project/ucp-hosted-app Built the whole frontend: https://github.com/Universal-Connect-Project/ucp-hosted-app/tree/main/apps/ucp-ui Technologies used: Turborepo, React, Typescript, rtk-query, redux-toolkit, redux, cypress, playwright, jest, vite, vitest, webpack, msw, mui, css modules, express, and sequelize. Web app: https://app.universalconnectproject.org/ Took an app that was struggling with reliability and added enough test coverage to make it stable: https://github.com/Universal-Connect-Project/ucw-app ### Staff Frontend Engineer @ McGovern McDonald Engineers Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | United States Founding engineer. Built a front end from scratch. Key technologies include React, MSW, RTK-Query, Redux, Cypress, D3, and Jest. ### Senior Frontend Engineer @ SageSure Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Remote Building UIs with React, Styled Components, React Query, and Jest for unit testing. Led the effort to create architecture decision records to improve the consistency, readability, and reliability of the front end. Massively increased the amount of tests written as well as the quality of the tests. ### Senior Frontend Engineer @ LendingClub Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | United States Building user interfaces with ReactJS ### Staff Frontend Engineer @ Nexio Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Salt Lake City Area Building libraries to improve consistency and maintainability for the React front end. ### Staff Frontend Engineer @ Nav Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Draper, UT Building the front end with React, Redux, Reselect, Styled Components, and Jest for unit tests. Tech lead for a team of ~10 front end engineers. Led the effort to create architecture decision records to improve the consistency, readability, and reliability of the front end. Massively increased the amount of tests written as well as the quality of the tests. ### Lead Software Engineer @ Nexio Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Provo, Utah Area Founding engineer. Architected a new front end built with React and Redux. Led a team of engineers focused on the front end. Built microservices in Node.js using AWS Lambdas. ### Frontend Engineer @ Overstock.com Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Salt Lake City, UT Rebuilding Overstock's mobile website with React and Redux. ### Software Engineer @ Jive Software Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Portland Worked on the core engineering team as a front end engineer owning the phrase substitution and video insertion React microservices ### Associate Software Engineer @ Jive Software Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Working as a software development engineer on the core development team at Jive. Developing new features using a full web stack, but with a focus on the front end. Developed user interfaces to manage the substitution of strings within Jive, the insertion of videos into a text editor, and the browsing and selection of videos using React and Flux. ### Software Development Intern @ Jive Software Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Portland Area, Oregon ### DevOps Intern @ Webtrends Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Built sinatra web apps to audit load balancer configurations and chef environment files. Wrote scripts to automate manual tasks. Developed a tool to automatically knife chef resources when they are updated. ### Software Development Intern @ Jive Software Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Worked on the team responsible for maintaining and improving Jive's Web Sotware. Fixed client and server side bugs. Made several improvements to UI enhancing customer experience. Refactored code to improve maintainability and a data driven UI. ### Quality Assurance/Test Automation Intern @ Webtrends Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Created a test strategy document and multiple test plans. Created an automation project and wrote automated tests. Developed a tool to measure a product's performance. Developed tools to increase QA velocity for a specific release. Wrote documentation on the functionality of those tools. Wrote detailed bug reports. Updated QA artifacts with the QA team. Wrote deploy steps for a new version of a product. Performed QA on http endpoints with json schema validation. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science Portland State University Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 ### Computer Science Portland Community College Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 ### North Salem High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/wes-risenmay-71775968 --- Source: https://flows.cv/wesrisenmay JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/wesrisenmay/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22