# Amanda Canyon > Senior Frontend Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/amandacanyon ## Work Experience ### Senior Frontend Software Engineer @ Styra Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Frontend Developer @ Interana Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Redwood city, CA I worked on a new version of an analytics product in react which better serves complex user analytics data queries. My projects include creating dashboards to view analytics queries, creating svg charts, and saving knowledge objects such as measures. ### Founder & CEO @ TrendClub Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area The latest pitch for TrendClub was creating a revolutionary top-secret marketing platform which would intelligently serve Facebook and Google ads based on targeting user need and also served display ads to market segments. We also wanted to experiment with word-of-mouth technology. Previously TrendClub was an "Instacart for fashion" site which 2day delivers apparel from the mall. https://shop.trendclub.co | https://facebook.com/ShopTrendClub ### Product Engineer @ Mixpanel Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 Worked on everything from dynamic frontend/backbone reports, to responsive Landing Pages, API work, to iOS lib additions. (Javascript/Backbone.js, Python/Django, Objective-C) Mixpanel Automatic Event Tracking (https://mixpanel.com/help/reference/ios#automatically-sending-events) - Updated the Mixpanel iOS lib to allow for dynamic event additions through a web console - A primary contributor to interactive frontend console, Decide API additions, and iOS Lib Updates Decide API Updates and Timezone notifications (mixpanel.com/blog/2014/08/19/announcement-send-notifications-in-your-customer-s-timezone) - Updated the decide api endpoint to allow for notifications to be sent at a specific time in the recipients timezone. Included updates to cronjob/python script, django updates, and updates to the frontend console Mixpanel Blog (https://mixpanel.com/blog) - Primary contributor to blog frontend and custom blogging engine. The blog itself includes hover states, and is fully responsive. Blogging engine allows for posts to be authored in markdown. ### Ruby Tuesdays Organizer @ Women Who Code Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Organizes the weekly Ruby Tuesdays meetup and leads a small core team to develop new sprints, mentor new developers, and give weekly talks. Also organizes general events such as mixers and tech-talks for the general community. http://womenwhocode.com ### Full Stack Developer and Release Manager @ Apartment List Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area Develops primarily in Ruby on Rails. Projects include a wide range of features ranging from SEO changes to rack-level proxying. Manages the weekly release cycle, involving making weekly deployments and interfacing with an external QA team. ### Software Intern. Backend Architect. System Admin @ Bytebite Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Palo Alto, CA Designed the backend for Bytebite.com (after the CTO left the compnay). Written in Spring (a Java Web Framework), Bytebite was run on Amazon EC2, with Hibernate as an ORM for MySQL on Amazon RDS, used Hibernate Search, and served with Apache Tomcat. ### Deputy Director & Founding Member of DeCal @ Pioneers in Engineering Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | UC Berkeley Pioneers in Engineering (PiE) is a UCB Student run robotics competition targeted at disadvantaged high school students in the Bay Area. As Deputy Director, she is an officer of Tau Beta Pi. Manager of master schedule for all departments and coordinator of major events. Co-founded a UCB class intended to train Berkeley students to be mentors for high school robotics teams within the PiE program. ### Software Intern @ Cubic Transportation Systems Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 Worked with synchronizing two separate systems. Utilized the .NET framework to auto-generate weekly status reports. Wrote various scripts to support engineering management software, AQdevTeam. ### Software Intern @ Cubic Transportation Systems Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 ### Director of Programming and Electrical & Founding Member @ Holy Cows – FIRST Robotics Team Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 Responsibilities include overseeing the design and implementation of all electronics and programming and to mentor incoming students the basics of the electrical system and the FIRST Robotics API ### Engineering Intern (Robotics Division) @ SPAWAR Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 ## Education ### Marketing UC Berkeley Extension ### EECS in Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/acanyon --- Source: https://flows.cv/amandacanyon JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/amandacanyon/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29