# Amer H. > Senior Software Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/amer Looking for interesting engineering challenges at product focused companies. I've owned and led feature development and architectural work at Google, RocketReach and Iterative Health. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Iterative Health Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, CA Owned and implemented multiple fullstack projects that involved taking extracting, analyzing and transforming patient data so that we could find good candidates for clinical research trials. A typical project would include: - Updating the database schema - Creating new backend logic - Designing frontend pages and elements, and connecting them to the backend logic - Orchestration with AWS infrastructure - Testing, documentation, monitoring and alerting One major project was a complete rewrite of a video redaction service; it took video data and using AWS Rekognition it would detect and censor any personal information. This system was rewritten to do this work in parallel and was 3x as efficient afterwards. ### Senior Software Engineer @ RocketReach Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Daly City, California, United States Development of new features and internal architecture for products used by large enterprise customers. These features have to process TBs of data per day for thousands of customers without breaking or any performance degradation. To ensure that we hit this level of quality, I owned the projects completely. This includes writing documentation, leading kick-off meetings, writing test plans and test suites, and monitoring performance after deployment. In some cases I was able to guide junior engineers how to use industry best practices and improve their testing and debugging skills. Example features: API architecture and frontend design to export profile and company data to marketing sites such as Salesforce and Hubspot. Rewriting bulk pipeline logic to achieve a 6x speedup while lowering resource usage. Adding SingleSignOn support via SAML. ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States Worked on large scale data processing for Tenor at Google. Before I left I had created a pipeline that can take new uploads from user generated content and: 1. Transcode the gif into a variety of formats 2. Upload these new formats to our legacy DB and the new Google backed DB. 3. Use Machine Learning to annotate the images with tags to mark them as NSFW, featuring celebrities, animated, etc. 4. Handle logging, monitoring, alerting and other related systems while this happens. ### Software Engineer @ Tenor Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Software engineering with a focus on internal backend architecture. Major features include: Tenor Insights, a tool for curators to manage top trending gifs. ### Software Development Intern @ Neon Lab Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Neon is a company that specializes in image processing, mainly in the realm of thumbnail generation. From a technical perspective, I worked on the internal tools used to process all the requests. This includes: -Replacing our existing video server with a more scalable SQS system -Fixing bugs in our logging system -Developing API's for internal use Tech Stack: Java, Python, AWS, Chef, Tornado, HBase, flume, REST From a non-technical perspective I was able to: -Worked with a great technical team -Helped shape the project roadmap -Worked in an agile development cycle -Grow as both a software developer and a person ### Software Developer @ WeMesh inc Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Waterloo The project I worked on is an iPhone app called WeMesh. The idea of the app is simple; create a room, invite your friends, and watch YouTube videos together in perfect sync. I worked on the full stack, including such technical features: -Developing a robust chat system -Implementing the backend server -Designing the front end -Various bug fixes -Developed and released the company website, which can be found here: weme.sh Tech stack: Python, Swift, Docker, Sinatra, iOS, HTML, CSS, Javascript On the non-technical side I: -Worked in an agile development cycle -Worked with project leads to shape the future of the project ### IT Solutions Developer @ TD Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 IT Solutions such as documentation and workflow diagrams. I also worked on implementing new features for an internal site which was meant to automate certain tasks. ### IT Architect, Direct Channels @ TD Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 I worked on prototype software and proof of concept work. I was tasked with implementing new technologies and deciding if they were viable to the business. Some of these projects include: - Implementing motion sensing into our mobile banking tools, so users could send money via literal handshakes - Implementing gesture recognition into our mobile banking tools, for use in passwords - Implementing new security features and testing their viability ### Privacy Developer/Tester @ IBM Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Markham I worked on internal business software for the privacy group. The software in question was for the iPad. The program would read in XML data, analyze it, and output the data in easy to read charts and graphs. I implemented the core logic of the program and the UI. ### Software developer - Polaris 1 @ Ice Services Canada Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 I worked on internal software that tracked ice floes and sent the data to ship captains daily. My project was to automate a few processes, and implement a few bug fixes. ### General Labor @ Vulsay Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Brampton, Ontario, Canada I was a manual laborer at Vulsay. I was tasked with packing skids, or handling the cardboard recycling during the changeover (when a new product is being integrated into the line. During this time, no work can take place as the line is not moving.) ## Education ### Computer Engineering University of Waterloo ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amer-h-79614940 --- Source: https://flows.cv/amer JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/amer/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29