Summary
Steve Dugas is a Staff Software Engineer in the Denver area with 11 years building polished, interactive front-ends and leading web efforts at both startups and established companies. He’s experienced in migrating legacy Rails frontends to modern single-page apps, driving React/Flux/Redux rewrites and shipping complex UIs like drag-and-drop editors and growth-focused web features. At Wealthfront he combined on-call ownership with web leadership for growth initiatives, and now applies that blend of product sensibility and engineering at Hatch. Comfortable diving into backend code when needed, he brings a journalist’s clarity from a Mass Communications background to crafting usable interfaces and clear technical communication. Notably, his career shows a consistent arc from hands-on HTML/CSS/JS implementation to mentoring scalable frontend architecture across teams.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Mass Communications, Journalism, Mass Communications, Journalism at University of Louisiana at Lafayette