Steve Zelaznik
Software Engineer at The Gnar Company, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Zelaznik is a software engineer in Chicago with 11 years of experience building reliable, auditable systems across healthcare, finance, and logistics. He combines deep quantitative chops from actuarial and derivatives work—where he built fast convergence algorithms and enterprise audit trails—with hands-on web engineering in Ruby on Rails, React, and Docker migrations. At The Gnar Company he led a legacy-to-container transition and cut full-text search latency from 30 seconds to 200 ms while managing high-volume background-check workflows. Equally comfortable with agile and TDD, he translates complex business needs for non-technical stakeholders and has a background in professional broadcast writing that sharpens his communication. A graduate of the selective App Academy and UW–Madison (Math & Economics), he’s known for pragmatic performance tuning that yields measurable operational savings.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Math, Economics, B.S., Math, Economics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonApp Academy
French, English
Stackoverflow
616reputation
159kreached
16answers
5questions
Github Skills (49)
handlebars10
hbs9
accessibility9
hashable9
voiceover9
ember-testing9
lint9
visual-regression-testing9
linter9
axe9
ui-testing8
wcag8
ember8
testcafe8
devtools8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
IoraHealth/eslint-plugin-chirp-test-rules
Feb 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 9 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 3 months
zelaznik/cosmo_connect
Aug 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:319 pushes, 2 branches, 2 comments in 10 months
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