# Anna Kaplan

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/annakaplan

https://github.com/AnnaKap

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ GlossGenius
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, NextJS, Typescript, Shopify, Liquid, GraphQL, Retool

### Senior Software Engineer | Growth @ Skillshare
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Remote

### Software Engineer | Growth @ Skillshare
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
- Led and developed A/B experiments focused on increasing conversion, retention, and engagement on the skillshare platform.
- Led impactful referral and affiliate projects, collaborating with two third-party service providers to implement dynamic referral campaigns and streamline processes, creating a self-serve system for the marketing team using React, TypeScript, Google Tag Manager, Resque, and PHP
- Developed the ability to process international currencies into our checkout API, a critical component of internationalization efforts, unlocking the ability to conduct over 10 localized pricing tests across diverse regions.
- Led the re-introduction of a 'free user experience' on our platform, overseeing the entire process from technical specification to post-deployment monitoring, resulting in a 150% increase in viewing engagement.
- Created dashboards and monitors using analytics and observability tools (Mixpanel, Datadog, Kubernetes logs), to monitor releases and track feature performance alongside our data science team
- Committed to mentoring team members through regular biweekly 101 onboarding sessions, imparting knowledge on our experimentation processes and analysis tools
-  Efficiently employed Jira, Mermaid, and Miro to compose concise technical specifications and document QA processes, fostering transparent communication and comprehension of feature implementations

### Product Engineer @ Iris Nova
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
- Developed and maintained an interactive customer-facing app for a touch screen vending machine using
React, Redux, Saga, and Sass, which interface with multiple APIs for processing purchases of products
- Developed a kiosk iPad app using React Native to integrate with RFID readers via web-socket connection
& displayed product data to customer
- Developed features for a new internal tools application to manage customer orders, information, &
conversations between customers & cx teams using Next.js, React, Redux, & Sass
- Onboarded and mentored junior developers to accelerate their growth as product engineers.

### Software Engineering Student @ The Grace Hopper Program at Fullstack Academy
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area

### Research Assistant @ Urban Systems Lab at The New School
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
- Assisted in researching, acquiring, and transforming spatial data sets for four major cities using ArcGIS.  
- Responsible for maintaining meta-databases for over 120 data sets. 
- Translated data attributes from Spanish to English.

### Greenhouse Assistant @ Arthur Ross Greenhouse
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Barnard College

### GIS Research Intern @ Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
- Earth Intern (LDEO) Grant Recipient 
-Extracted, cleaned and visualized municipal level data sets for over 1,500 municipalities 
-Technologies used: Excel, ArcGIS and Adobe Suite applications.

### Research Assistant @ Ecology Evolution and Environmental Biology Department at Columbia University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area
- Summer Research Institute Grant Recipient 
- Accumulated and analyzed data using R to determine efficiency of research techniques 
- Field work: in maintaining and cultivating plants of the study / planning and setting up infrastructure necessary for data collection equipment

### Lab Assistant @ Barnard College Biology Department
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Barnard College
-Set up, break down and clean lab materials
-Prepare and distribute solutions
-Provide general care for plants and animals in the lab


## Education
### Fullstack Academy

### Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Biology
Barnard College

### ITP Camp


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/annakaplan1
- Website: https://annakap.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-04-01