Greg Hester
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test at Avalara
Renton, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Hester is a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test with over a decade of QA and SDET experience, currently owning test strategy and automation for Avalara's AvaTax. He began his career testing AAA video games at Nintendo and Microsoft, bringing a tester’s attention to player experience into enterprise-grade SaaS and distributed systems. Greg has built organized automation frameworks, REST SDK test suites, and distributed load testing tools to validate functionality, integration, and peak capacity for high-traffic services. His background in mathematics and hands-on analytics work with big-data pipelines and Hadoop equips him to bridge product, performance, and data concerns effectively. Comfortable shifting from game certification tooling to cloud tax engines, he advocates for customers by turning complex requirements into reliable, well-tested releases.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics at University of WashingtonHigh School Diploma, Graduated with Honors, High School Diploma, Graduated with Honors at Bellarmine Preparatory School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (28)
nuget10
payment-service10
dotnet10
dot10
sales-tax10
sdk10
tax-rate10
dotnet-core10
avalara10
csharp10
pix9
netsuite9
tax9
python-sdk8
api8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
avadev/AvaTax-REST-V2-DotNet-SDK
Nov 2017 - Sep 2022
AvaTax v2 SDK for languages using the Dot Net Framework
Contributions:4 reviews, 55 commits, 41 PRs in 4 years 10 months
dotnetdotdot-netnet-frameworkdot-net-framework
avadev/AvaTaxClientLibrary
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
Sales Tax API SDK for C# / DotNet and AvaTax REST
Contributions:23 commits, 16 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 6 months
apidotnetaspnetpayment-serviceapi-sdk
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