Steve Baletsa

About Steve Baletsa

A technical leader specializing in building performant teams and creating a positive culture together with agile software development processes.I enjoy the collaboration between product, design, and engineering to create responsive, dynamic user interfaces. I have strong expertise in front-end development, as well as experience in UX, interface design, and web design.I’m driven by challenges. Nothing fuels me more than a task that is not easily accomplished. Every puzzle is something to investigate and explore. about creating simple stable solutions, collaborating with teams to consistently build great technology together, and clean semantic markup.My background in design and illustration lends itself well to implementing attractive web applications and allows me to easily bridge the gap that can be found between design and development.

Experience

1. Director of Software Engineering

   Bevi

   Jan 2025 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Leading the team responsible for the full software stack behind Bevi’s smart water machines.Key Responsibilities: • Leading a cross-functional engineering organization (Android, web, backend, and embedded systems) to deliver new features and user experiences improvements to customers to support both new and existing Bevi products. • Collaborate with product and delivery team members to shape the engineering roadmap, set strategic priorities, and align resources to the business\' quarterly objectives.• Recruiting, screening, and hiring potential candidates to expand the team.• Establish clear performance goals and provide mentorship to support career growth, professional development, and team engagement.• Drive sprint-over-sprint excellence by strengthening engineering processes, enhancing automation, and ensuring high-quality, reliable product releases, including working with a team of test engineers working in espresso to build UI automation tests to identify regression risks.

Education

• Rhode Island School of Design

  Illustration

  2001 — 2005

• Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University (CDIABU)

  Graphic and Web Design

  2008 — 2009

Skills

• Html5
• User Experience
• Adobe Photoshop
• Casperjs
• Creative Direction
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Gulp.js
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Git
• Web Development
• SEO
• Jquery
• Html
• Adobe Illustrator
• Javascript
• Html 5
• Drupal
• User Interface Design
• Graphic Design
• Sass
• Responsive Web Design
• Agile Web Development
• Responsive Design
• Scrum
• Bootstrap
• Grunt
• Front-End Development
• Web Design
• Front-End
• Css
• Wordpress
• React.js
• Illustration