Steven Gonzalez

Software Engineer III, MiTek

October 2019 – present · Chesterfield, MO

• Led the full rewrite of a legacy software platform for a year and a half, from architecture and feature planning to building it across teams.
• Designed and built a new API from scratch, including the endpoints that control the machines.
• Built new Angular features for the rewrite.
• Created a shared repository of CI/CD pipeline templates, so every team builds, tests and deploys the same way.
• Build and maintain the Azure DevOps pipelines behind automated testing and deployment.
• Moved legacy systems from .NET Framework to .NET 8, and converted VB code to C#.
• Brought Docker into legacy workflows to make testing and deployment faster.
• Designed and built an installer platform that delivers product updates.
• Built and supported desktop applications in C#, SQL, WinForms, WPF and Angular.
• Led the team's move to agile practices, including sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Worked with PLCs for machine automation and control.

CEO and Software Engineer, Virtual Fitness LLC

November 2018 – present · Ballwin, MO

Makers of Virtual Trainer, a cross-platform fitness app that builds workout plans and tracks progress.

• Built the app front to back on my own: React Native on iOS and Android, with C# APIs, SQL, Azure AI, Azure AI Search, Azure Service Bus and Amazon SES.
• The API has 86 endpoints across 14 controllers, and the app and API have more than 6,000 automated tests.
• Set up the Azure services and the Azure DevOps delivery behind it.
• Worked with a senior product manager to turn customer needs into planned work.

Software Developer, Club Ready

2017 – 2019

• Helped build a new ASP.NET Core API, and wrote endpoints across several of its service areas.
• Worked with a third-party development company to set requirements and break the project into tasks.
• Was the point of contact between development and product for requirements.
• Wrote unit tests for domain services.
• Built internal tools that cut down support tickets.
• Improved the performance of high-impact queries and pages, and rewrote legacy pages and stored procedures.
• Designed tables, triggers, indexes and stored procedures across several databases, and used LINQ in the new architecture.

Sky Islands

2026 · Personal project

The painted world at the top of stevengonzalez.dev, drawn in code on canvas with no images and no libraries.

• Moved all of the drawing into two web workers with OffscreenCanvas, which took mobile Lighthouse from 61 to 94–97 and main-thread time at load from 145 to 65 ms.
• Made the sound live with Web Audio, and wrote checks that render the world and its sound in headless Firefox and fail on a single changed pixel or sample.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

University of Missouri – St. Louis · 2018

Associate degree

Jefferson Community College, Hillsboro, MO · 2015