Steven Slack
Senior Web Developer at Veeva Systems
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Slack is a Senior Web Developer with 11–14 years of hands-on experience delivering high-traffic web applications, developer tooling, and performance optimizations using JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node, PHP, WordPress, and modern build systems. He has led migrations and rebuilds for sites with millions of monthly users, refactored monorepo and build pipelines (including Turborepo) to speed CI/CD, and built open-source tooling to scaffold projects rapidly. A mentor and coach, he elevates team engineering practices through pair programming and code reviews while focusing on developer experience and measurable performance wins (e.g., a 21% Lighthouse improvement). Based in Asheville, NC, Steven blends a polyglot engineering background with entrepreneurial roots—having run a successful freelance business, organized the first WordCamp Asheville, and created collaborative local co-working spaces. He’s especially drawn to data visualization and meta-programming, and brings a pragmatic curiosity that turns legacy platforms into resilient, developer-friendly systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Environmental Science & Conservation Biology, Bachelor's degree, Environmental Science & Conservation Biology at Warren Wilson College
English, Portuguese, Spanish, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
wordpress-themes10
wordpress10
wordpress-plugin10
image-upload8
taxonomy8
mantle7
frontend7
rich-text-editor6
wysiwyg6
apple-news6
jquery6
react5
tinymce5
alt5
javascript5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stevenslack/stevenslack
Feb 2023 - May 2026
Contributions:55 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
alleyinteractive/js-component-framework
Feb 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 11 reviews, 19 commits in 10 months
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