Steve Armstrong
Senior Software Engineer II at Attentive
Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Armstrong is a Senior Software Engineer II with 12 years building high-throughput, UX-driven web applications, currently shaping product at Attentive. He specializes in Node and Deno backends and is actively exploring LLMs and generative AI to enhance interactive experiences. Previously he led front-end engineering at Smartling, where he moved from senior developer to Front End Lead, blending design sensibility with scalable implementation. Based in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, he pairs a developer’s rigor with a creative background—holding a BA in Jazz—bringing an unusual emphasis on rhythm and user flow to engineering problems. Known for shipping production-quality features across growth-stage teams, he excels at bridging complex backend systems with polished client-side experiences. Steve’s curiosity about emerging AI stacks suggests he’s positioned to drive next-generation UX innovations that leverage generative models.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Jazz/Jazz Studies, Bachelor of Arts, Jazz/Jazz Studies at University of New Orleans
English
Github Skills (22)
editors10
contenteditable10
textarea10
draft-js10
wysiwyg10
rich-text-editor10
editor9
text-editor9
javascript9
react9
react-framework7
frontend4
emoji3
cjk3
latin2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sarmstrong/backbone_maps
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:16 commits in 15 days
sarmstrong/draft-js
May 2017 - Jul 2018
A React framework for building text editors.
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
text-editorsreactjavascriptrich-text-editorreact-framework
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