Stephen Bunn

Lead Software Engineer

Capital One • Dec 2022 ‐ Present

Key contributing engineer within Capital One Shopping team focused on increasing adoption and user satisfaction of their cardholder offers platform. Also worked within the Capital One Cloud Engineering team to help establish best practices for deploying network monitoring software to AWS cloud environments.

• Led the development of the system that allows Capital One cardholders to receive rewards for offers directly tied to their credit card transactions.
• Designed and implemented the deployment methodology of non-cloud off-the-shelf network topology software to AWS cloud environments.

Senior Software Engineer

Grove Collaborative • Jan 2021 ‐ Dec 2022

Acted as the team lead of the Growth and Web engineering teams. Planned and oversaw the implementation of technical refactors and feature improvements to Grove's web client.

• Led the design and development of a web component library. This library was engineered to meet accessibility guidelines and be extensible in any Vue-based rendering environment (SPA, SSR, static page generation).
• Improved both site performance and SEO by transitioning most all landing pages to auto-generated static pages.
• Key contributor in addressing web accessibility concerns and in creating guidelines for producing accessible features in the future.
• Directly responsible SME in Grove's frontend guild helping to define and estimate North Stars for frontend-minded teams.
• Facilitated continuous communication between stakeholders in marketing, design, analytics, and other engineering teams.

Software Engineer 2

Grove Collaborative • Apr 2019 ‐ Jan 2021

Worked on a SWAT engineering team focused on building solutions for complex business requirements and investigating and solving technical issues as they arose.

• Helped to implement payment method fraud detection. Integrated with several third-party services to handle capturing payment from customers on first-time checkouts.
• Constructed CMS content schemas and produced reusable presentational components to allow content managers to construct and publish web pages.
• Helped to establish effective code quality tooling and style guides throughout the engineering organization.

Full Stack Developer

Sensus • Apr 2017 ‐ Apr 2019

Worked on a small team of engineers focused on building the platform and standards for creating customer-facing applications.

• Built and maintained the customer experience development platform used to consolidate user authentication, product management, and the return process for customers.
• Assisted in developing tooling to aggregate internal analytics and telemetry that Sensus uses to monitor the performance of most areas of the business.

Web Content Manager, Office of Sustainability

Appalachian State University • Jan 2016 ‐ Apr 2017

Primary content manager of the front-end of the sustain subdomain at appstate.edu. Maintained the Office of Sustainability's Google presence.

Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Computer Science

Appalachian State University • Aug 2016 ‐ Apr 2017

Performed research in the optimization of existing package management systems in the component, module, and software levels of package management.

NSF REU Researcher, Department of Computer Science

East Carolina University • Apr 2015 ‐ Aug 2015

Performed research in both production level testing methods and the use of sentiment analysis in data mining. Specifically perfomed sentiment analysis on textual data taken from online resources such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

Appalachian State University

Master of Computer Science • 2016 ‐ 2017

Appalachian State University

Bachelor of Computer Science • 2013 ‐ 2016

Applying Package Management To Mod Installation

Appalachian State University • Aug 24 2017

Package management automates the discovery and installation of software that can coexist within an operating system. The methods used by package management can also address other instances where the installation of software needs to be automated. One example of this is the environment produced by third party video game modifications. An adapted application of package management practices can help to solve the difficult problem of finding and installing a set of video game mod…

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Amazon Web Services • Aug 30 2023

SSTEM Scholarship Recipient

Appalachian State University • Mar 20 2017

Awarded the SSTEM scholarship due to strong performance in course work and extracurricular research and study groups.