Summary
Steven Bargelt is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience scaling mobile and web platforms across retailers and enterprises, currently serving as Director of Software Engineering in Seattle. He has a strong track record of turning around stalled projects, building high-performing remote teams, and delivering measurable business impact at companies like Best Buy, Target, Nordstrom, and Alaska Airlines. Steven blends hands-on technical fluency (React Native, Swift, Kotlin, .NET, AWS) with operational rigor—designing CI/CD pipelines, moving teams to trunk-based development, and cutting cloud costs through targeted migrations. He excels at hiring and mentoring diverse engineering teams, instituting practices like TDD and pair programming to accelerate cycle time and improve quality. An advocate for asynchronous collaboration, he uniquely pairs product-focused delivery with long-term process improvements informed by data science training from Johns Hopkins.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate/No Degree Data Science, Certificate/No Degree Data Science at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health