Simon Sturmer, Developer in San Mateo, CA, United States
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Simon Sturmer

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Software Developer

Location
San Mateo, CA, United States
Toptal Member Since
January 17, 2020

Simon is a software engineer, consultant, trainer, speaker, open-source contributor, and a lifelong learner. He has a passion for building strong digital products for mobile and web. Simon has worked as a front-end engineer at Facebook and at Google, and he is currently providing consultations, training, and development with a focus on React Native.

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Bash, iOS, Chrome, MacOS

The most amazing...

...tech talk I was invited to present overseas in 2017 was later published online and ended up getting 90,000 views from developers around the world.

Work Experience

Founder and CTO

2020 - PRESENT
Remix Interactive, Inc.
  • Founded this startup with one co-founder in September 2020. I built a mobile software product from zero to MVP, launched and raised venture capital.
  • Got accepted into and completed the program at one of the world's top startup accelerators, Y Combinator, as part of the W21 batch.
  • Presented a working product at YC Demo Day in March 2021, leading to interest from over 60 angels and VC investors, leading us to raise a round of venture funding.
Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React Native, GraphQL, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Prisma

Trainer

2019 - PRESENT
DevelopIntelligence (A Pluralsight Company)
  • Led the training for multiple fortune 500 companies, including Visa, Salesforce, Microsoft, Intuit, and others.
  • Scoped and built training curriculums as part of consulting with these companies to help them level up their software engineering teams.
  • Delivered in-person training across the US as well as live virtual training across four countries.
  • Was awarded the 2020 DevelopIntelligence Elite Instructor designation in December 2020. This award recognizes the "best instructors in the industry, who regularly set the bar in the classroom and transform student lives."
Technologies: React Native, React, TypeScript

Senior Software Engineer

2018 - 2019
Google, Inc.
  • Introduced TypeScript to a performance-sensitive mobile framework that's used in the YouTube main app as well as several other products, such as YouTube creator studio and YouTube kids.
  • Contributed as part of a technical committee tasked with making architectural decisions for mobile frameworks used within YouTube.
  • Collaborated with other teams across different orgs in Google, including Dragonglass and Google Search Assistant to help bring innovations from YouTube's mobile framework to other products.
Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript

Front-end Engineer

2013 - 2015
Facebook, Inc
  • Integrated React into various interfaces used by advertisers to create and manage their Facebook ads. Also built the JS tracking “pixel” for the ads team that is currently in use on over a billion webpages in the world.
  • Contributed to developer tooling that was used by thousands of engineers inside Facebook and open-sourced to eventually be used by many more thousands of developers around the world.
  • Trained new hires including as a bootcamp mentor.
Technologies: React Native, React, JavaScript

Remix

https://remix.so
Remix is a mobile app for hosting and attending virtual events with a focus on audio and social. I built Remix from the first line of code using TypeScript, React Native, Node.js, Prisma, Postgres, Redis and GraphQL. After we were ready to scale up the engineering team, I recruited, interviewed and onboarded additional developers to help build this platform. I currently lead this team, both coding alongside them and leading the direction of the product, making technical and architectural decisions—ensuring the quality of the product and codebase stay top-notch.

Languages

TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, Bash, GraphQL

Frameworks

React Native, Chrome

Libraries/APIs

React, React Native for Web, Node.js

Tools

Expo, Flow, Prisma

Paradigms

HTML DOM

Platforms

MacOS, iOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Storage

PostgreSQL, Redis

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