# Abraham S.

> Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/abrahams

Software engineer with 9+ years of experience across companies at every stage—from seed-funded startups to Series B, Series C, and public companies—in Malaysia, Singapore, and the United States. Currently a Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest, where I serve as Tech Lead for user-facing surfaces focused on sharing and messaging.

I work across the full stack (web, Android, and backend) with a product-minded approach to engineering, focusing on growth and features that directly impact user engagement.

Always interested in connecting with folks working on growth engineering and scalable systems!

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## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Pinterest
Jan 2025 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Pinterest
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Tech Lead for multiple user-facing surfaces.

### Software Engineer @ Pinterest
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
[2021-present] Sharing and Messaging - Empower Pinners to share their ideas and collaborate with others
[2020-2021] Content Growth - Empower Pinners everywhere to bring the most inspiring content to Pinterest

• Ideate, implement, and analyze 50+ experiments in 4 different platforms (Web / Android / Browser Extension / Backend) on different surfaces.

Tech stacks:
React, Kotlin, Java, Python, SQL

### Software Engineer, Growth @ Carousell
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Singapore
• Built the first version of real-time chat application on web platform for 2M+ users which increased engagement rate by 10%.
• Ran experiments on core backend features for 3M+ users in 5 countries; search API, email localization, paid product.
• Led SEO features implementation on web platform and backend by working with Digital Marketing team, Web Platform team, and a Product Manager, which grew organic user acquisition by 300% in 6 months.
• Reduced time to deployment for web platform from 8 hours to 20 minutes by coordinating Web Platform team, QA team, and Release team.
• Mentored two Software Engineering Interns for Summer 2018, both of them received return offers.

Tech Stacks: React, Fluxible, Javascript, Django, Python, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, PostgresSQL

### Software Developer @ Watch Over Me (ACQ: Carousell)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Malaysia
• Built an ETL system to scrap, transform, and load police data from 3 major cities to production system.
• Built a campaign management system to send email campaigns and analyze its conversion rate.
• Built a dashboard to monitor company’s KPI by analyzing & visualizing growth data from internal server
and various 3rd party data analytic sources, e.g. Mixpanel and AppAnnie.
• Made a major version update for Android application with a team of 3, shipped it successfully to
100,000++ users in 2 months from reading the first unknown source code to app lives in Google Play.
• Implemented analytics for Android App using Segment, Mixpanel, and Google Analytics.

Tech stacks: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, d3.js, Java, Android, AWS, GIS.

### Teaching Assistant @ Institut Teknologi Bandung
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Bandung Area, West Java, Indonesia
Assisted database-related and other courses to attend labs, check class members’ submission, and assist class participants to make a final assignment each semester start at 4th semester.
Lecture assisted :
IF2030 - Database
IF2110 - Functional Programming
IF2112 - Algorithm and Data Structure

### Summer Intern (Software Group Division) @ IBM
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Greater Jakarta Area, Indonesia
Developed News-Classification-and-Processing module of IBM Intelligence Fusion System by integrating IBM Content Analytics and IBM Content Classification into a web-based application.
Tech stacks: Java, Apache Tomcat, IBM DB2.

### Intern @ Radya Labs Teknologi
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Bandung Area, West Java, Indonesia
Added new feature of Tixify (a mobile app to buy movie tickets) to buy Blitzmegaplex movie tickets & snacks.
Tech stacks: C#, Windows Phone 8

### Exchange Participant @ AIESEC Local Committee University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
Worked with a group of international students (Brazilian, Chinese, and Indian) to teach English and global warming subject in private schools.


## Education
### MSE in Software Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science
Institut Teknologi Bandung


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abrahamkrisnanda

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Last updated: 2026-03-31