Celeste Winterton

Software Engineer · celestewinterton@gmail.com

Fullstack software engineer with a focus on frontend and a background in finance and analytics. Currently a Software Engineer II at Northspyre, a real estate development technology startup. Check out my work or set up time for a chat!


Projects

Coinblock

A Trading App | GITHUB

A simulated crypto trading application inspired by Coinbase

  • Coinblock was developed with Javascript, React and Redux on the frontend, and Python, Flask and SQLAlchemy on the backend with a Postgres Database.

Chatter

A Messaging App | GITHUB

A live-chat messaging application clone of Slack

  • Chatter was developed by a team of four engineers. It uses Javascript, React and Redux on the frontend, and Python, Flask and SQLAlchemy on the backend with a Postgres Database.

Guestly

An Events App | GITHUB

An events site for wedding planning and RSVPs

  • Guestly was developed using Javascript, React and Redux on the frontend, and Express and Sequelize on the backend with a Postgres Database.

Experience

Northspyre

Software Engineer I-II
  • TBD
  • Tech Stack: Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy, Celery/Redis, React/TypeScript SPA with React Query, AWS Lambda serverless
February 2023 – Present

Intel Corporation

February 2019 – February 2022
Senior Financial Analyst
  • Led the near-term forecast and influenced teams to meet aggressive goals, increasing gross margin compared to prior forecasts and trends
  • Improved inventory risk assessment reliability through more dynamic calculations and presented biweekly reviews to drive action plans, saving ~$25M per quarter; received awards for spearheading this initiative
  • Performed NPVs, cost-benefit analysis that identified emerging risk and initiated working groups with stakeholders to drive discussions on redesign, deals, and build strategy, resulting in cumulative risk mitigation of $100M+
Finance Business Analyst
  • Created a Power BI dashboard to automate reporting and show real-time OpEx spending to provide the group with immediate access to financials and saving about ~50 hours per quarter in FP&A work
  • Exceeded aggressive profitability targets through strategic planning and managed factory spending with cross-functional business partnership, resulting in $50M+ spending reductions

California Treasury

April 2017 – January 2019
Staff Services Analyst
  • Department: California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission (CDIAC)
  • Managed logistics for CDIAC’s debt issuance and fixed income investment seminars (Included speaker and venue selection, contract negotiation, marketing, and registration)
  • Collected survey responses to determine efficacy and development opportunities. This inspired thought groups with industry experts to redesign programs
Student Analyst
  • Automated digitizing bond documents to a file repository reducing time to load documents by 50%+

Education

App Academy

Full-Stack Software Engineering Bootcamp
January 2022 - July 2022

California State University, Sacramento

August 2014 - May 2018
Bachelors in Economics
  • 2018 Award for Outstanding Community Engagement
  • 2018 Adam Smith Award for Best Undergraduate Economics Research Paper (entitled "The Underrepresentation of Women in Chief Executive Appointments")

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
  • JavaScript

  • TypeScript

  • Python

  • React

  • Redux

  • TanStack Query

  • Node.js

  • Express.js

  • Sequelize

  • Heroku

  • VS Code

  • flask

  • FastAPI

  • SQLAlchemy

  • PostgreSQL

  • Docker

  • Git

  • Figma

  • HTML

  • CSS

  • Bootstrap

  • Tailwind


Interests

Outside of coding, I'm a bitcoin maximalist, I enjoy listening to podcasts, playing piano, indoor rock climbing, or learning something new. Also a big skin care and cosmetics junkie.

  • Some favorite podcasts:
    • Javascript Jabber
    • All-In
    • NPR's Planet Money and The Indicator
    • Freakonomics Radio
    • Revisionist Histry
    • Abra's Money Talk
    • What Bitcoin Did
    • Huberman Lab
    • The Human Upgrade
    • Where Should We Begin

  • Currently in Phoenix, AZ