BRETT SMENTEK

Senior Software Engineer

New York, New York

Contact 🖋

https://brett.sh

brettsmentek@gmail.com

+1 (917) 242-2614

Work experience 👩‍🚀

Peloton Interactive | Software Engineer

May 2020 - present

I am a software engineer at Peloton Interactive.

Casper | Senior Software Engineer

December 2018 - May 2020

At Casper I focused on the company’s digital products and serverless infrastructure.

• Led technical initiatives around accessibility compliance, transition to the Next.js framework, web performance, and edge infrastructure to implement a high-availability and high-performance web experience
• Integrated Contentful headless CMS with e-commerce site, giving nontechnical users the ability to deploy static pages to a global CDN
• Introduced a suite of testing standards, including end-to-end tests to improve coverage across the company’s applications

Knewton | Software Engineer

December 2016 - December 2018

At Knewton I helped develop an AI-driven educational platform.

• Led the development of a TypeScript-React-Redux-GraphQL frontend working with a lean team to scale a consumer application from 0 to 100,000 users
• Built a custom Python-based content management system to map content with a graph-based recommendation engine and integrate with a large number of Java services

Arup Group | Full-stack developer

August 2014 - December 2016

Arup is a multidisciplinary engineering firm at which I helped apply digital solutions to a wide array of challenges.

• Built custom Python and JavaScript tools to overcome deficiencies with off-the-shelf structural engineering software and allow for complex geometries and unique architectural considerations

Education 🎓

Clemson University | B.S., Mechanical Engineering

Projects 🚀

NASA Lunar and sand traction

• Authored two papers published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers outlining research into tire design for low-moisture, low-atmosphere environments specifically for next-gen manned lunar missions

Skills 🕶

JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Webpack, React, Redux, GraphQL, Apollo, Docker, CI/CD, web accessibility, web performance, Redis, Elasticsearch, Splunk, Java, AWS, Firebase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, interested: mobile, Elixir, Go, PWA