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---
title: Resume
layout: resume
---
Steve Grossi — Full-stack software developer and team lead
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Skills
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Empathy, curiosity, and clarity foremost—then Ruby, Rails, Elixir, JavaScript,
React, SQL, Docker, and AWS.
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Experience
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Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at Lessonly
(November 2014–Present)
- As Lessonly's second engineer, I've helped grow a culture of collaboration and
knowledge-sharing. With code reviews, shared style guides, automation, and
more, I've focused on building more than software—on building systems,
practices, and patterns that have helped us scale from two engineers to 30.
- As a Lead Engineer, I've coached teams of developers of various backgrounds
and experience levels to question, understand, decompose, deploy, measure,
iterate on, and communicate about flagship features of the platform like
learning paths, commenting, and a Chrome extension.
- As we've scaled up, I've honed the ability to analyze an optimize code and
infrastructure through simplification, optimization, and caching (ideally in
that order)
- As an Engineering Manager for several years and enablement lead afterward,
I've worked primarily on empowering my team with communities of practice,
automation tools that save time and provide context when it's needed, and
abstractions like APIs for common needs to containerized dev environments.
- Since 2017, I helped start and run Lessonly's employee-led Diversity &
Inclusion group. We organized discussion groups, an executive panel, and
community outreach events that measurably improved the diversity of the team.
Senior Developer at Alldayeveryday (January 2013–November 2014)
- Lead developer building a mobile-responsive, international publishing platform
for Gap’s global media team.
- Sole developer for Gap’s 2013 online holiday gift guide, an editorialized
shopping experience backed by a custom Rails CMS.
- Co-developer of an HTML5 mobile web app for Nike’s Global Media Summit using
Rails and Backbone.js. Features included a live calendar, photo stream, and
chat.
## Senior Coordinator of Online Projects at CancerCare (July 2009–January 2013)
- Migrated cancercare.org from a folder of PHP files to a maintainable,
version-controlled web application with a custom CMS built on Rails.
- Designed and built many of CancerCare’s supplemental sites including
cancercarecopay.org, cancercareforwomen.org, and myelofibrosisawareness.org.
- Managed two contract developers brought on to help with major projects.
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Education
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New York University, B.A. in Philosophy & Comparative Literature
Philosophy and literature prepared me unexpectedly well for a career in
software. Philosophy taught me how to take apart, construct, and write clearly
about complex concepts and systems. And comp-lit taught me how to approach
pretty much anything from a variety of useful critical perspectives.
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In the Community
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- Since moving to Indianapolis, I’ve been a frequent member and sometime speaker
at the Indy.rb Ruby users’ group.
- I organized Indy Elixir, the local Elixir users’ group before taking it
online-only due to COVID.
- I've volunteered with Railsbridge Indy, teaching Ruby and Rails chiefly to
folks underrepresented in the industry.