# Anuar Zhuken > Senior Software Engineer Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/anuarzhuken I’m a Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing and building scalable UIs, and AI-driven automation at companies like Uber, Headspace, and Aurora. My passion is building tools and systems that make engineers faster, more productive, and more creative. At Aurora, I led architecture for a full-stack application adopted by 6+ teams, mentored engineers into senior roles, and reduced onboarding time by 30%. I also designed a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) assistant that cut the ideation-to-code cycle by 40%—shaping how GenAI can supercharge developer workflows. Earlier in my career, I built a microservice at Uber with 99.99% uptime and launched engagement platforms at Headspace that boosted enterprise conversion rates by 300%. I’m now seeking opportunities at top companies where I can multiply engineering impact—whether by architecting developer platforms, driving GenAI adoption, or mentoring high-performing teams. Outside of code, I share insights on developer productivity and engineering leadership on my blog. ## Work Experience ### Wearing all hats @ Dryrun app Jan 2025 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ Aurora Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States Product Engineering & Developer Productivity - Architected and led development of a scalable full-stack application, standardizing UI/backend foundations and accelerating cross-team development. - Created Bazel build rules and automated DB migrations, reducing integration issues by 40% and improving onboarding/setup time by 30%. - Mentored 4 engineers (2 promoted to Senior), improving team-wide design quality and code review standards through 1:1s and architectural guidance. AI/GenAI Innovation - Designed a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) assistant using LangChain + LLMs, reducing ideation-to-code cycle time by ~40%. - Pitched and demonstrated GenAI-powered developer tools to engineering leadership. Performance & Architecture Leadership - Cut frontend bundle size from 8MB to 400KB through strategic code-splitting, compression, and dependency optimization. - Re-architected state management layer using Observer/Mediator patterns, reducing cross-component coupling and tripling feature delivery velocity. - Led architecture and roadmap planning for a 6-person team, aligning technical tradeoffs with stakeholder goals to improve delivery efficiency. ### Software Engineer @ Headspace Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### Software Engineer @ Uber Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed and implemented a fault-tolerant full-stack microservice using FusionJS (Node/React), with 99.99% uptime. Built and maintained email authoring, search, and filtering features for internal workflows, enabling 300+ business users to streamline operations. Collaborated with designers and PMs to ship scalable user-facing features like dynamic filtering UIs, consistently delivering on 2-week sprint cycles. ### Software Engineering Teaching Assistant @ Hack Reactor Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area - Code-reviewed and taught 60+ students to debug critical Javascript issues such as variable hoisting, async vs. sync, closures and more - Led and evaluated over 30 programming skills assessments for prospective students and new cohorts - Conducted dozens of data structure and algo mock-interviews for graduates resulting in improvement of evaluation ratings of ~15% ## Education ### Upwardly Global Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 ### Nanodegree in C++ Udacity Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 ### Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program in Web Development Hack Reactor Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anuarzhuken - Website: https://codalife.github.io/blog/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/anuarzhuken JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/anuarzhuken/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22