Steve Jensen
Staff Frontend Engineer at Gusto
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Jensen is a staff frontend engineer who specializes in building design systems that bridge the gap between engineering and design to ship accessible, scalable web applications. Based in Denver, he currently leads frontend delivery at Gusto, guiding cross-functional teams toward consistent APIs, accessible UI, and reusable components. Earlier, he led a five-person team at Instructure developing a React-based open source design system used by multiple engineering groups and millions of users, ensuring WCAG AA compliance, internationalization, robust testing, and thorough documentation. He has shaped UX and frontend strategy at Vivian Health as Lead UX Engineer, and previously contributed as UI Developer across multiple product areas, collaborating with designers to translate visuals into reusable components. His career began with UX-focused roles at BYU, with a formal background in computer science from Brigham Young University. Steve combines hands-on front-end expertise with a systems-thinking approach to unify design and engineering disciplines at scale.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (12)
accessibility10
ui-component10
typescript10
component-library10
lms10
react10
canvas-lms10
ui-components10
sudoku9
product-design8
prototypes6
reactjs5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
instructure/instructure-ui-prototypes
May 2019 - Jul 2020
UI Prototypes for Instructure Product Design
Contributions:41 commits, 5 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 2 months
reactinstructureprototypesdesign-systemui-components
serikjensen/sudoku-color
May 2017 - Aug 2022
React sudoku application in color.
Contributions:2 PRs, 102 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 3 months
reactjsreactsudoku-colorsudoku
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