Scott Rees
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
United States
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Top SchoolScott Rees is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building and leading frontend teams at scale, currently driving Billing UX platform work at Stripe. He has a strong background in frontend architecture and UI engineering from senior roles at AWS—where he was a leader on Amplify UI and a founding member of SageMaker Studio—and has led cross-functional teams as a software development manager. Scott combines hands-on implementation of accessible, themeable React components (contributions to the notable aws-amplify/amplify-ui project) with product-minded documentation and refactoring efforts across the Amplify docs. He’s comfortable toggling between coding, design-system work, and operational leadership, having managed and unblocked teams through pairing, design reviews, and stakeholder collaboration. With an early foundation in freelance web design and a psychology degree, he brings a user-centric perspective to complex technical problems.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
C# Advanced Programming Certificate, C# Advanced Programming Certificate at University of WashingtonBachelor's degree Psychology, Bachelor's degree Psychology at Pacific Lutheran University
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
ui-components10
css10
front-end-development10
aws-amplify10
react10
documentation10
full-stack9
nextjs7
graphql6
serverless6
amplify-js6
wordpress-graphql6
amazon-web-services6
wpgraphql6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aws-amplify/amplify-ui
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Amplify UI is a collection of accessible, themeable, performant React (and more!) components that can connect directly to the cloud.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3571 reviews, 251 commits, 792 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Scott's commits focused on developing and implementing user interface components for the `aws-amplify/amplify-ui` repository, a collection of React components. They primarily worked on primitives, creating and refining UI elements such as buttons, views, images, dividers, and text fields. Their work included defining and applying styling properties, integrating them with design systems, and building demo components.
themeablereactaccessiblevuedesign-system
aws-amplify/docs
May 2021 - May 2022
AWS Amplify Framework Documentation
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:590 reviews, 9 commits, 73 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributes to the documentation of the AWS Amplify framework, focusing on enhancing the clarity and accuracy of the documentation. Their work includes fixing typos, updating links, and reorganizing content within the documentation. The commits also show the integration of new documentation for Gen2, which indicates a focus on supporting the latest framework versions. Additionally, the user is responsible for refactoring code within the documentation, such as updating menu and component structures.
amplify-frameworkaws-lambdaserverlessaws-amplifygraphql
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