Sasha Schwartz
Lead Software Engineer at 8th Light
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSasha Schwartz is a Lead Software Engineer based in Chicago with nine years of experience delivering front-end and full-stack solutions across consultancy and product teams. They have held repeated leadership roles at 8th Light, bringing hands-on engineering, team mentorship, and client-facing design sensibilities to complex projects. Sasha's background spans fast-moving startups like Coinbase and specialist UI engineering at Formidable, reflecting comfort in both high-velocity product environments and carefully crafted frontend work. A creative foundation in fine arts and study in Japan informs a visual-first approach to user interfaces and clear communication with designers. Known for bridging design and engineering, Sasha excels at turning ambiguous requirements into maintainable, well-tested systems while coaching teams to raise delivery quality.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Dev BootcampResearch Student, Nihonga, Research Student, Nihonga at Tama Art UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Fine/Studio Arts, General, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Fine/Studio Arts, General at Connecticut College
Github Skills (47)
keynote10
spectacle10
react10
relational9
refactoring9
html8
jsx8
unit-test8
game-development8
3d8
game-engine8
programming-language7
godot7
ruby7
open-source7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
soft-circles/MatchingGame
Mar 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
akiraandy/TTTWebApp
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:33 PRs, 84 pushes, 27 branches in 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.