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Experience

Vail Resorts

Senior Software Engineer - Digital Rentals & Commerce•June 2026 - Present

  • Launched snow.com, unifying Vail Resorts' 40+ resorts and brands into a single destination for guests to explore, plan, and book
  • Reimagined the online ski and snowboard rental experience for My Epic Gear, so guests can browse, book, and save their preferred gear and reserve the same setup at any Vail Resorts mountain
  • Rewrote the platform in a shared React, Next.js, and NX monorepo on a headless Contentstack CMS, migrating off legacy systems and using AI agents to accelerate content and template migration at scale
  • Added analytics tooling and advertising to the guest journey with Google Tag Manager, giving marketing and product teams visibility into what moves guests from discovery to booking across every resort and brand
  • Established testing and CI/CD practices with Vercel preview deployments, enabling confident releases during peak winter season
  • Partner with product, design, marketing, and resort operations to deliver an experience that meets Vail Resorts' brand standards and supports the Experience of a Lifetime for guests
  • Tech stack: Next.js, React, TypeScript, NX, Contentstack, Vercel, Google Tag Manager, CI/CD

Starbucks

Senior Front End Software Engineer, Menu Engineering•June 2024 - June 2026

  • Developed and maintained SignageBuilder, the platform powering dynamic digital menu boards in thousands of Starbucks locations worldwide, enabling real-time updates and seasonal campaign rollouts
  • Partnered with product, design, hardware, data, and business teams to ship features that improve the in-store customer experience at massive scale
  • Built analytics directly into menu screens, connecting the dots between marketing spend, promotions, and in-store sales, giving the business clear insight into what was driving results
  • Introduced a system for safely releasing new features to a small percentage of stores first, enabling gradual rollouts and instant rollback without disrupting live locations
  • Delivered polished, on-brand menu templates for major product launches, meeting Starbucks’ strict design and quality standards
  • Tech stack: React, C#, Azure Functions, Kubernetes, NX, signageOS, DataDog

LawGoat

Lead Software Engineer, Mobile & Web•February 2024 - June 2024

  • Led development of LawGoat’s mobile app and web platform, building an AI-powered chat experience that helped people find the right lawyer and manage their legal matters from start to finish
  • Built a custom matchmaking algorithm to pair clients with the right attorney based on their case details, making legal help more accessible and less intimidating for everyday people
  • Shipped the company’s first App Store and Google Play releases, owning everything from development through CI/CD pipelines, app store submissions, and post-launch user feedback
  • Worked closely with designers and product stakeholders to deliver high-impact features quickly in a fast-moving startup environment, contributing across development, QA, and deployment

Disney+

Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Technology•August 2019 - September 2023

  • Built Cannonball from the ground up, Disney’s internal content management system used by marketing teams to create, preview, and publish web pages for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, growing the platform and the engineering team to support global markets and millions of subscribers
  • Worked across the full stack on both front-end and back-end systems, mentoring and managing junior engineers as the team scaled
  • Delivered the features that made marketers self-sufficient: a live preview so teams could see exactly what they were publishing, scheduled publishing, multi-language support for international markets, and instant rollback if something went wrong
  • Built a multi-tenant architecture with role-based access controls and guardrails so Disney, Hulu, and ESPN+ teams could each manage their own content independently without risk of affecting one another
  • Built a CLI tool to automate data management and environment tasks, and maintained full test coverage to keep every deployment reliable
  • Tech stack: Vue.js, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, TypeScript, AWS, Docker

Marketplace News

Software Engineer•Jan 2017 - May 2018

  • Maintained and improved the Marketplace.org website, keeping the site stable and fast for the millions of readers and listeners who rely on it for business news
  • Added Amazon Alexa support so listeners could get Marketplace news briefings on their smart speakers at home, expanding the show’s reach to a new platform

Shippter

Software Engineer Intern•February 2015 - August 2015

  • Built a web app from scratch at a freight-forwarding startup that let businesses browse and book international shipping routes online, replacing a process that had previously been done manually
  • Selected as part of Startup Chile, a prestigious government-backed accelerator, working directly with the founding team on product strategy and delivery

Education

University of Southern California

Computer Science & Business Administration•August 2012 - May 2016

The Computer Science & Business Administration program at USC is a collaborative program between the Viterbi School of Engineering and the Marshall School of Business. This interdisciplinary degree equips students with a robust foundation in both computer science and business, preparing them to lead in technology-driven industries. Students engage in core computer science courses such as Data Structures and Object-Oriented Programming, Discrete Methods in Computer Science, and Principles of Software Development, alongside fundamental business courses in areas like Accounting, Finance, Marketing, and Organizational Behavior and Leadership. The program culminates in a capstone project, allowing students to apply their interdisciplinary knowledge to real-world challenges, often involving the design and implementation of large software systems or the creation of high-tech startups.

Columbia University

Artificial Intelligence and FinTech Certificate•December 2023 - July 2024

Completed a six-month Artificial Intelligence and FinTech program at Columbia Engineering, focusing on the intersection of machine learning and financial technology. Gained hands-on experience with tools like Pandas, Jupyter Notebooks, scikit-learn, Keras, and TensorFlow to build models for financial modeling, algorithmic trading, risk management, and blockchain applications. Developed practical skills in neural networks, natural language processing, and data analysis, applying them to real-world fintech scenarios.

App Academy

Full Stack Software Engineering Bootcamp•November 2018 - July 2019

Completed an intensive Full Stack Software Engineering Bootcamp, gaining hands-on experience with JavaScript, React, Redux, Node.js, Express, and MongoDB. Focused on building and deploying full-stack web applications through a project-based curriculum emphasizing both front-end and back-end development.

Universidad del Desarrollo

International Business & Entrepreneurship•February 2015 - August 2015

Completed a semester abroad through USC's Marshall School of Business, studying entrepreneurship and business strategy. All coursework in Spanish.

Skills

  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • C++
  • Java
  • Swift
  • React / React Native
  • Vue.js
  • Next.js
  • Redux
  • Node.js / Express
  • C#
  • GraphQL
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker / Kubernetes
  • Git / CI/CD
  • MongoDB / PostgreSQL
  • TensorFlow / Keras / scikit-learn
  • Jest / TDD

Full-stack software engineer with broad experience across frontend (React, React Native, Vue.js), backend (Node.js, C#, GraphQL), and cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes). Delivered production-scale systems for major platforms like Disney+ and Starbucks, with a focus on user experience, performance, and scalability.

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About Me

Hi, my name is Steve Anderson. I grew up in Aspen, Colorado, studied Computer Science and Business at USC, and have spent the last 10+ years building software in San Francisco, Seattle, and now Denver.

I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Vail Resorts, working on Digital Rentals & Commerce — the guest experience on snow.com and My Epic Gear for 40+ resorts and brands. I genuinely care about the people using what I build. Good software should make someone's life a little easier — and that's what I'm here for.

Outside of work I'm a licensed private pilot, a former Junior Olympics ski jumper, and most weekends you'll find me somewhere in the mountains.