
Steven Hazel
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Steven began his career as a software developer with a keen interest in startups and new technologies, and a focus on shipping products. After many startup experiences, he decided to co-found his own company and has spent the past decade building Sauce Labs into a successful enterprise software company.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Emacs, Kubernetes
The most amazing...
...project I've built was Sauce Labs, a Saas product for automated software testing used by many tech companies and large enterprises.
Work Experience
Co-founder, CTO
Sauce Labs
- Co-founded the company and was the primary engineer building the initial product.
- Guided architecture throughout.
- Led the transition to deploy our service with Kubernetes.
- Hired and ran the engineering and product teams. Scaled the development team.
- Architected, coded, maintained, and handed off a complex collection of about a dozen back-end microservices in Python.
- Built a web app in JavaScript and Python.
- Authored components in a variety of languages, including Go, Scala, Ruby, and JavaScript.
- Worked with sophisticated tests and tests infrastructure for a large number of significant companies, including Selenium and Appium tests and most unit testing frameworks and CI systems.
Director, Engineer
BitTorrent
- Managed the development team through the release of an online movie store.
- Assisted in the development and product management of several versions of the BitTorrent client.
- Planned and guided the release of the product.
- Worked with key stakeholders to secure buy-in for the acquisition of µTorrent.
- Designed and helped to code a complex web app in Python and Javascript, featuring streaming video and credit card transactions.
Senior Software Developer
Grouper (now Sony Crackle)
- Designed and built a file-sharing system in C# similar in idea to BitTorrent.
Software Developer
FolderShare
- Built a file sharing system in C and PHP.
Experience
Monocle
https://github.com/saucelabs/monocleiSign
https://github.com/isignpy/isignCodepad
Sauce Labs
https://saucelabs.com/Skills
Languages
Python, C, PHP, Ruby, Scala, Go, Reason ML, Rust, JavaScript, Haskell, C#, CSS, HTML
Frameworks
Selenium, Twisted, Django, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ant Design
Libraries/APIs
Selenium WebDriver, Asyncio, React, FFTW
Paradigms
Functional Testing, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Unit Testing, Functional Programming
Storage
JSON, MySQL, NoSQL, CouchDB, Redis, MongoDB
Other
Async/Await, Scalability, VST, Audio, DSP, Digital Audio Workstations (DAW)
Platforms
Kubernetes, Docker
Tools
Emacs