Steven Pautz
Staff Software Engineer at Circle
North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Pautz is a Staff Software Engineer and UI architect with two decades of cross-platform experience building frontends, design systems, and developer tooling. He specializes in JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems—React, Node.js, microfrontends and npm libraries—and has shipped SPAs, SDKs, and styling engines at scale while leading teams to adopt standards that boost developer velocity. Steven blends UX and interaction design expertise with backend experience, making him equally fluent in API design, accessibility, i18n, and security practices. He mentors engineers across levels and shapes team culture to sustain long-term engineering health. An active open-source contributor, he has made impactful fixes and async configuration improvements to the popular craco project for Create React App. Based in North Carolina, he keeps learning as a discipline and balances technical rigor with hobbies like hiking, gardening, and crafting hot sauce.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Clemson UniversityMS Human-Computer Interaction, MS Human-Computer Interaction at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (10)
configuration-management10
javascript10
configurations10
customisation10
configuration-file10
react10
testing8
typescript4
typescripts4
typescript-types4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dilanx/craco
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Create React App Configuration Override, an easy and comprehensible configuration layer for Create React App.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 7 commits, 1 PR in 19 days
Contributions summary:Steven focused on enhancing the configuration and functionality of `craco`, a tool for customizing Create React App. Their contributions included supporting asynchronous configuration files and refactoring the codebase for better performance, which is a core feature of the project. Moreover, they made changes related to the configuration process in critical files like `start.js`, `build.js`, and `test.js`. This effort encompassed critical infrastructure and API changes for the library.
create-react-appreactcraconfigurationcustomization
spautz/parameterized-selectors
Jul 2018 - Oct 2020
[DEPRECATED] A Reselect-inspired library where selectors can use params
Contributions:14 PRs, 30 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 3 months
params
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