Summary
Shea Close is a Software Engineer II with nine years of hands-on experience building web applications and DevOps solutions, currently driving product work at Leafly from North Richland Hills, Texas. His background spans roles as a developer, instructor, and mentor, where he led UI/UX overhauls, migrated apps to modern stacks, and automated CI/CD to cut costs and improve reliability. Shea blends practical craftsmanship—honed through prior careers in culinary and construction and hobbies like instrument-building and prop-making—with strong technical chops in React/Angular, Node, and AWS. He has a track record of translating education into production: teaching web development while maintaining and migrating real-world applications. That maker’s mindset shows up in both usability-focused front-end work and infrastructure improvements that deliver measurable operational gains.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at Devmountain
English