Saundra Castaneda
Lead Engineer I at Stitch Fix
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSaundra Castaneda is a Lead Engineer with 11 years of experience building performant, user-focused web and mobile experiences from Chicago. She has advanced from internships at GitHub to senior roles at Home Chef and Stitch Fix, shipping React and React Native features, API integrations, and performance optimizations that measurably improved page load and UX. Her work spans front-end portals and complex back-end flows—examples include a Message Center rendered via DOM portals, Stripe-verified address flows, and hardening OmniAuth security to use CSRF-protected POST redirects. A practical problem-solver, she pairs attention to visual and accessibility details with pragmatic refactors (e.g., cutting CSS payloads by ~60%) and mentors engineering teams as a steady technical leader.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Network and System Administration, Associate's degree Network and System Administration at DeVry University Advantage AcademyBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at DePaul UniversityDev Bootcamp
Spanish, English
Github Skills (29)
aesthetics10
requirements-management9
sinatra9
reporter9
rack9
cli8
probot8
python8
hanami8
opal8
modular7
fundamentals7
alex7
ruby7
data-journalism7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
svcastaneda/svcastaneda.github.io
Dec 2016 - Nov 2022
Personal website with some Windows95 *~aesthetics~*
Contributions:103 commits, 14 PRs, 30 pushes in 5 years 11 months
aestheticswindows95
nchambe2/git-committed
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:105 commits, 34 PRs, 51 pushes in 7 days
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