Senior Software Engineer/Dev Lead
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Senior Software Engineer at Salesforce.com
- Principal at Music Challenger
- Past
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- Senior Software Engineer at Rearden Commerce
- Software Development Engineer III at Lab126 (subsidiary of Amazon.com)
- Senior Software Engineer at Celequest
- Software Engineer at Liberate Technologies
- Summer Intern at Chromatic Research
- Education
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- Cornell University
- UC Berkeley
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Steve Weiss’s Summary
Results oriented, business minded senior software developer with experience leading development teams on SasS clients and servers, as well as embedded clients. I'm always interested in learning new things and having fun.
Steve Weiss’s Specialties:
Expert in Java
Strong working knowledge of PL/SQL, SQL, PHP, XML, REST, HTML, Javascript
Experience with C, C++, Perl
Experience developing on Force.com platform with VisualForce and Apex
Experience developing software on the Amazon Kindle
Experience using Spring, Hibernate, Struts, JUnit, HttpUnit, Selenium, ExtJs
Experience writing Facebook applications
Experience opening platforms to third party developers
Experience using MySQL and Oracle
Quick to learn
Steve Weiss’s Experience
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Senior Software Engineer
Salesforce.com
(Public Company; CRM; Computer Software industry)
December 2008 — Present (1 year )
Leading frontend development, and doing a lot of backend work, on Salesforce Chatter.
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Principal
Music Challenger
(Internet industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Developed unique Facebook Application for user generated audio sample based quizzes.
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Senior Software Engineer
Rearden Commerce
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 2 months)
• Lead the effort to open up the Rearden Services Platform to third party developers. This includes defining conventions, adding functionality to the service framework such to support security, versioning, validation and id masking.
• Integrated the service framework with a proprietary metadata modeling framework
• Took over project management responsibilities for the open platform
• Participated in Platform Service Architecture Review Committee
• Designed and developed a user itinerary service for internal and third party clients
• Developed single-sign on punchout mechanism
• Refactored legacy code to use the next generation SOA kernel and added functionality to the kernel -
Software Development Engineer III
Lab126 (subsidiary of Amazon.com)
(Public Company; AMZN; Internet industry)
July 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Responsible for architecture, leading development, and project management of a development platform for the Amazon Kindle.
Added features and redesigned parts of the existing infrastructure.
Developed sample applications.
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Senior Software Engineer
Celequest
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2003 — May 2006 (3 years 5 months)
Designed and developed features for Celequest Activity Suite's J2EE-based business activity monitoring and operational dashboard engine, including the rules and alert engine, webapp components (servlet), recoverability, intelligent workflow features, upgradability, internationalization
Developed testsuite framework and regression tests for Celequest Activity Suite's rules and alerts engine, recovery engine, object manipulation functionality, import/export engine, and user-defined function handling
Developed and maintain engine for periodic builds and regression test runs on Windows
Developed demos for sales, and gave demos of Celequest software to customers -
Software Engineer
Liberate Technologies
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; LBRT.PK; Computer Software industry)
1998 — 2003 (5 years )
Developed features and fixed bugs for DOM and DHTML engine for digital set top boxes
Rearchitected rendering engines for HTML and Java engine for digital set top boxes, and optimized performance and improved stability for PACE DVI-1000 set top box
Developed features for SI Engine on GNI 5518 set top box
Developed DHTML, Javascript, and Java test cases
Responsible for client port to SA Explorer 2000 and 2010 set top boxes, over PowerTV OS, and integration with Pioneer Passport and Scientific Atlanta's resident applications
Met with cable operators regularly to address their concerns
Worked with sales, marketing, and external partners to
develop and give trade show demos
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Summer Intern
Chromatic Research
(Computer Software industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year )
Steve Weiss’s Education
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Cornell University
Masters , Computer Science , August 1997 — May 1998
Emphases: Multimedia, Computer Vision, and Networking
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UC Berkeley
BA , Computer Science and Applied Mathematics , August 1993 — May 1997
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Steve Weiss’s Interests:
improvisation, stand-up comedy, hiking, tennis, programming, wine tasting, skiing
Steve Weiss’s Groups:
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Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup -
Salesforce.com Professional Network -
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Salesforce.com Foundation -
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Liberate Technologies
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