Summary
Elyse Vest is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience delivering frontend and full-stack applications, currently shaping user experiences at Slack in Austin. She specializes in React, Redux, and GraphQL, with hands-on work in AngularJS, Node.js, Express, SQL/NoSQL, and HTML5 Canvas. At H-E-B, she designed and built the GraphQL account schema for heb.com and led a major frontend rewrite in React, while mentoring an intern and owning deployment pipelines (AWS S3/CloudFront, Lambda, Route53) and GitLab CI/CD. Earlier at Bazaarvoice, she improved component performance and accessibility, created tooling to measure bundle size, and contributed to testing and CSS optimization with Emotion. Her career also includes teaching software engineering at ReBootKamp and building an information resource for non-traditional careers with KeyUp Austin, plus completing Hack Reactor's immersive program. With a Master of Music in Saxophone Performance and a background as a musician and instructor, she brings disciplined, collaborative problem-solving and strong communication to technical teams.
7 years of coding experience