Steven Traversi
Head Of Engineering at Change
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Traversi is a Head of Engineering with 12 years of experience building performant front-end systems and payments infrastructure, currently leading engineering at Change where he scaled the team and launched donation APIs used by enterprise customers like Brex. Previously he improved YouTube's load performance at Google, built an internal transpiler for frontend frameworks, and maintained Material Design web components. His hands-on background spans production payments at Braintree to teaching CS at UC Berkeley, blending practical product delivery with mentorship and curriculum design. An active open-source contributor, he’s contributed examples, testing improvements, and UI/UX enhancements to prominent projects such as Lit and Material Web. He combines a deep focus on web component performance and accessibility with experience operating developer-facing platforms and payment flows. Based in San Francisco, he brings startup agility and large-scale systems rigor to growth-stage engineering leadership.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (15)
html10
component-development10
lit-element10
material-design10
uid10
javascript10
lit-html10
web-components10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
accessibility9
css9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lit/lit
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
Lit is a simple library for building fast, lightweight web components.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 77 commits, 14 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the development of examples and components within the Lit-Virtualizer library. Their work included adding and expanding upon examples using LitElement and Lit-HTML, such as creating a basic LitElement example and improving the existing basic Lit-HTML example. They also made improvements to the testing infrastructure and added docstrings to improve code clarity.
litlit-elementweb-componentsjavascriptwebcomponents
material-components/material-web
Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
Material Design Web Components
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 22 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily focused on enhancing the demos and components of the Material Web library. Their commits centered around updating and refining drawer components, including modal, dismissible, and standard drawer types. They also implemented focus trapping for the drawer, improved the appearance of top app bar demos and made several UI/UX improvements by replacing icons with icon buttons, adding RTL support for the tab bar, and correcting host sizing issues.
web-componentsmaterial-componentsmaterialweb-designmaterial-design
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