# Amanda Aizuss > Staff Software Engineer at Gusto Location: Santa Monica, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/amandaaizuss ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Gusto Jan 2023 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States Working on payroll ledger ### Senior Software Engineer @ Gusto Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Los Angeles, California, United States Risk Engineering team Gusto Pro Engineering team ### Senior Software Engineer @ 8th Light Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Greater Los Angeles Area Full stack development in Elixir/Phoenix for Cars - worked on user profiles, saved search notifications, and detecting and displaying price drops. Full stack development in Rails/React for a 10 year old project management web app. Improving security and usability by implementing role-based access control and guiding its implementation across teams. Reducing code complexity and duplication by consolidating old permissions logic. ### Software Engineer @ 8th Light Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Greater Los Angeles Area I've worked on a variety of projects including a Swift iOS app for physical therapy patients to watch exercise videos and track their recovery progress, an Ethereum blockchain tool (in Go) that lets developers easily query blockchain data, building an e-commerce subscription startup's Django REST API from scratch, frontend development for a webapp that visualizes United States federal and local data, and an Objective-C iOS app for a smart medical device. See https://aaizuss.github.io for more details. ### Software Development Apprentice @ 8th Light Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Chicago ### TEC Fellow @ True Ventures Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 True Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm. I'm one of 14 students that they selected to work at one of their portfolio companies and learn about technology, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. ### Marketing Intern @ Twin Prime - A Salesforce Company Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Twin Prime is a mobile app acceleration startup, which has been acquired by Salesforce. I developed case studies for Twin Prime customers, which generated more sales leads. With the CTO, I analyzed data from the Twin Prime database and created Twin Prime Insights, to educate customers and communicate Twin Prime's value. I also identified companies for advertising campaigns and for our business development lead to contact ### QA & Project Management Intern @ Lootsie Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Culver City I worked directly with the CTO to establish Lootsie's QA process and figure out how to streamline communication between engineering teams. As a QA intern, I was responsible for testing the Lootsie SDK for both iOS and Android, the developer portal, and the web app. I documented the QA process at Lootsie so that new interns and QA testers could easily learn about the steps necessary to release a new Lootsie build or product. I reorganized Lootsie's project management system to optimize efficiency and wrote a guide to JIRA so any Lootsie employee could understand how to use it. I produced a video tutorial demonstrating how to integrate Lootsie in an iOS app so developer partners could easily use the Lootsie SDK ### Video Producer @ Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Produced videos for the Inclusive Technologies (IncTech) Contest to inspire and teach teens with learning disabilities to use technology to manage a challenge. I scripted, filmed, appeared in, and edited 8 videos guiding participants through the challenge. ### Girls Learn International Intern @ Feminist Majority Foundation Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Rewrote and reorganized the Girls Learn International (GLI) human rights curriculum for middle and high school students Scripted, filmed, edited, and appeared in a video about GLI, which was featured on their website. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science University of Chicago Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ### High School Harvard-Westlake School Jan 2007 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amandaaizuss - Website: https://aaizuss.github.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/amandaaizuss JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/amandaaizuss/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22