# Ashley Smith > Software Engineer Location: Stockton, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ashleysmith With over six years of experience as a software engineer, I have developed a range of web applications and features that enhance the usability, functionality, and performance of various platforms. I specialize in front-end development using React, TypeScript, and other modern technologies. I am a people person and excel at communication within and across teams, which has contributed to strong team cultures and moving projects forward efficiently. My goal is to use my skills and passion to create web applications that solve real-world problems and delight users. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ MODE, Inc. Jan 2024 – Present | San Mateo, Ca | Tokyo, Japan | Remote ### Senior Software Engineer @ Yumi Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 In my short time at YUMI I successfully executed a comprehensive overhaul of the helloyumi.com website, leveraging flexbox and React components to create a responsive, easy to maintain website with legacy concepts safely removed. Unfortunately due to a change in the business model, the development team was no longer needed. ### Software Engineer II @ Evernote Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | Remote As an engineer on the Editor team at Evernote, I am responsible for building and maintaining a rich text editing experience in the note editor across web, mobile, and desktop platforms, as well as features well loved by millions of users including clean web clipping into notes, keyboard shortcuts, templates, handwriting, and more. Since the note editor is central to the Evernote app, I often collaborate with other teams at multiple points in the development process to ensure efficient development of larger new features. I also communicate often with the product and design teams around upcoming work, thinking through each potential new feature from both the technical perspective and the user perspective, helping to ensure that we are planning work that will maximize user benefit within the technical and resource constraints. ### Associate Software Engineer @ vAuto: A Cox Automotive Brand Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 ### Software Engineer II @ vAuto: A Cox Automotive Brand Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas Area I am a full-stack software engineer responsible for building and maintaining high quality, tested code that will deliver needed features to our clients in a timely manner. As an active participant in our Scrum practices, I help to hold my team to the high quality standards we hold for ourselves. I am proficient in Angular, with experience migrating a production application from Angular 1.X to Angular 6, and I put a lot of care into building intuitive user experiences. I am also experienced with C#/.NET for maintaining APIs. ### Lead Curriculum Designer for Web Development @ Hello World Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas Area Lead curriculum designer for an elementary and middle school/high school Web Development course. The curriculum is 100% online and includes a variety of video tutorials, engaging assignments and projects. The curriculum is shared across 11 schools across the Austin area, and is soon to be taught at the Khan Labs school in San Francisco for a week long course. ### Engineering Instructor @ Hello World Tech Studio Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas Area Instructor for a weekly after-school program on HTML, CSS and JavaScript, helping students grasp important computer science concepts as well as to have fun building websites. ### Fellow @ MakerSquare Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 - Presented challenge problem solutions and lectures on recursion, trees and sorting algorithms - Contributed to rapidly iterating curriculum by writing an assessment prompt on React - Tutored students on concepts such as writing asynchronous code, node.js and data structures - Guided students through tackling bugs and understanding how data flows through an application - Conducted technical interviews for MakerSquare applicants ### Graphic Designer @ Tokay Press Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 - Created effective marketing materials, invitations and more using Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop - Engaged clients through informative weekly emails using MailChimp - Maintained a steady workflow and managed projects to ensure quality and timeliness ## Education ### BA in Sociology University of California, Berkeley Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ### Immersive School of Software Engineering Hack Reactor Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ashleymariesmith --- Source: https://flows.cv/ashleysmith JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ashleysmith/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29