# Ashley Kozachek > Senior Full-Stack Engineer • React & TypeScript Expert • AWS/Kubernetes Architect • Team Mentor Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ashleykozachek Full stack expert with over 9 years of experience delivering modern web applications using TypeScript, React, AWS, and Kubernetes. 2K Games’ Spotlight award winner. Creating performant cloud applications at scale. Recognized for strong technical leadership, mentorship, and the ability to bridge architecture, frontend, and backend development. Currently seeking opportunities that blend hands-on engineering with team leadership and management growth. Successfully created and grown a competitive, tournament-winning E-Sports team for transgender women. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ 2K Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Novato, California, United States • Technical Leader for 2K’s internal Admin Portal, interfacing with and supporting multiple service verticals and external teams • Supported 9 major title release, including Civilization 7, Mafia: The Old Country, PGA 2K25, and Top Spin • Led a team of 20 engineers in new feature development and removing technical debt, liaising with two remote contractor teams, including overseas talent • Leader on a major version upgrade from Node 12 to Node 22 including devops work, enabling modern unit testing • Go-to debugger and technical support for critical and show-stopper bugs during game releases with very tight timelines • Designer and leader for React Query implementation, unifying API methodologies in the front end while enabling unit testing and providing modern React hook integrations • Leader for converting all existing class based components to modern functional / hook based components • Designed an RBAC system for our admin portal, integrating with external teams and establishing standards for permissions • Designed and implemented a refactor for our front end from a monolithic application to a Module Federation framework • Set standards and mentored engineers in doing Test Driven Development • Mentored two junior engineers, helping one achieve a promotion to Software Engineer • Organized and led 2K CoreTech’s web guild • Spotlight award winner • Co-lead of 2Gether, 2K’s LGBTQ employee resource group ### Senior Software Engineer @ Trunk Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 • Developed hooks for Highcharts to create default options and application-specific options • Developed table system for tabulating and displaying data within a standardized data type framework to allow for significantly more flexibility and specific use cases (such as drawing graphs as cells) • Frontend API development with React-Query based hook system • Implementation of full stack API systems for Analytics pages • Implementation of API systems for merge queue product ### Senior Software Engineer @ Talis Biomedical Corporation Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States • Created and development of a widget based system implemented in React with Redux for a common, data-driven UI • Developed the PoC for our Authorization and Authentication using AWS Cognito and OIDC via Microsoft Azure • Contributing developer to the browser-based frontend including redux utility functions and common components / libraries • Lead developer of a library component that manages user credentials, notifications, and configurations for client versions of our website • Wrote a PDF Generator from HTML using Python in a Lambda ### Software Engineer @ XP Health Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Redwood City, California, United States * Architect and lead engineer for the XP Health storefront * Full stack development with both Django and React, using Redux, Reselect, Redux Sagas, and Aphrodite * Created the storefront payment system using Stripe for payment processing * Integrated the React storefront into an existing Django infrastructure which did not previously have any React * RESTful API development for the storefront ### Software Engineer @ Import.io Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Los Gatos, California * Architect and lead engineer for Kubernetes-based Apache Airflow implementation with intermediate data storage and complex parallelization not natively supported by Airflow * Lead engineer for improving legacy AWS Simple Workflows (SWF) solution * RESTful API development for customer-facing workflow system, improvement of existing workflow API * Significantly refactored TypeScript tooling for internal customers resulting in greater reliability and tool efficiency * SaaS product development in React/Redux ### Software Engineer @ Emerald Cloud Lab Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | South San Francisco, California ### Software Engineer @ 23andMe Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Full stack development with Django, Javascript, React, SASS, jQuery • A/B testing of user-facing features • Test-driven development • Large-scale RESTful API development • Development of highly configurable banners for marketing • Coordination with marketing and design teams • Customized AJAX/HTML Django error handlers ### Software Development Engineer @ Cerebrotech Medical Systems Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Pleasanton, California • Scratch built internal full-stack data processing website using NodeJS, ReactJS, Postgres, and Python • Development of secure, USB-stick deployed updater program for Mac OSX using Swift • Administration of CentOS server maintaining full-stack of internal data processing website • Development with emphasis toward verification and validation • Original author of documentation relating to test protocols, software design, and software requirements specifications ### Software Engineer @ Lockheed Martin Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale, California • Development of embedded C++ software for Orion Program • Synchronous / Asynchronous IP-based communication software development • Development of onboard shared buffer for encapsulated module communication • Development of Python tools and Bash scripts for regression testing, as well as for testing of simulated hardware. • Actively participates in daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, and quarterly Release Planning meetings • Coordination with remote teams both within LMSSC and at other companies ### Associate System Engineer @ Alion Science and Technology Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Responsible for development of program modules, replacing, updating and debugging legacy code, and management of RHEL servers and related systems. ## Education ### Master of Science University of Connecticut Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 ### Bachelor of Science University of Connecticut Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ashleykozachek --- Source: https://flows.cv/ashleykozachek JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ashleykozachek/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22