# Avia Weinstein > Software Engineer at Verkada Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/avia ## Work Experience ### CEO & Co-founder @ Critter Colony Club Jan 2024 – Present | California, United States ### Software Engineer Manager @ Verkada Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer @ Verkada Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Software Engineer with experience as an individual contributor and team manager. Proficient in project management and specializing in front-end development, particularly with React, TypeScript, and SCSS. ### Front End Software Engineer @ VacayHome Connect, LLC Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Chicago Area Frontend Web Development - Served as integral developer in re-envisioning and recreating core product handling vacation rental management and distribution using modern technology and industry groundbreaking automation connecting to 3rd party APIs. - Drove efforts to craft structure of frontend applications including analyzing and determining frontend frameworks for company’s primary product offerings, shaping code standards, and standardizing design patterns. - Collaborated closely with backend developers to determine and ensure highest standards for endpoint construction. - Envisioned and led efforts to create internal website providing employees transparency to revenue and sales increasing visibility from 0 to 100%. Data retrieved without relying on short staffed backend development team. - Designed, developed, and managed overhaul of marketing website. Deployed completed site 25% ahead of schedule. Technical Leadership - Hired and onboarded frontend developers building team from scratch. Compiled report’s individual annual reviews. - Collaborated with offshore developers ensuring 24 hour coverage and mentored interns by fostering skill development. - Championed agile methodologies by leading stand ups, monitoring kanban/sprint boards, and facilitating grooming. - Served as liaison making meaningful contributions and decisions between frontend team and other teams. - Bettered deployment efficiency and resolved inter-team conflict by reinventing process for build pipeline and git branch modeling resulting in 90% decrease of bugs making it into production. Cultural Initiatives - Promoted interdepartmental relationships with game nights, holiday activities, and quirky personalized name plates. - Boosted office morale by coordinating charity snack shop, team outings, team lunches, and birthday decorations. ### Software Engineer @ FOREVER™ Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Pittsburgh Technical Accomplishments - Dove into middle of major marketing/ecommerce website reorganization and redesign project, quickly contributing to both frontend and backend code meaningfully. - Served as key contributor in remake of primary product (custom photo storage and organization) application, making vital frontend architectural decisions. Quickly learned newly-chosen frontend framework, Vue.js. - Rebuilt all automated emails and implemented clean design across all devices and platforms. - Initiated and executed complete overhaul of company’s frontend style guide. Company-Wide Initiatives - Aided in the professional growth and development of co-workers. Served as mentor for non-engineers wanting to learn about coding data structures, writing tests in Rails, and versioning control (git). - Promoted company-wide spirit by planning and organizing company activities and competitions, leading a project to create company yearbook outside of working hours, and adding fun twists to otherwise mundane team rituals. ### Software Engineer @ 4moms Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Pittsburgh Responsive Web Design - Led responsive redesign of international global.4moms.com websites, 17 languages in total to support 62 countries. Created universal structure for ease of on-going updates. - Achieved a website responsive redesign by coordinating development between a team of 4 engineers of both 4moms.com and shop.4moms.com resulting in an increase of mobile traffic by 45% and mobile conversion rate by 25% within 6 weeks. - Conceptualized and led project to automate script for international websites, reducing time for creating new pages from 8 hours to 0.5 hours. - Served as a key communicator and champion within team to ensure highest standards and clean, well-structured code. Digital Marketing - Expanded role as the dedicated software engineer on the digital marketing team. Supported the team with custom HTML email development, ongoing ecommerce optimization projects, and website changes based on web analytics and A/B testing. Entrusted to manage backlog and timeline. - Acted as strong cross-functional communicator within team. Tirelessly advocated for mutual understanding and alignment behind project scope, timeline, objectives, and priorities. Product Development - Collaborated with VP Technology to design web application that automated documentation of product information coming off of the assembly line of noisy production environment without internet access. Went from capturing 0 to 15,000 product assemblies per month without cost increase. - Contributed to embedded code development on physical product (infant car seat). Jumped into project with little notice, spun up quickly, and self-taught best practices with lack of clarity. ### Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Pittsburgh Conducted student homework help sessions, led tutoring and lab sessions, lectured lab sessions, replied to student posts on an online class blog, graded student homework assignments and exams, assisted professor in writing and editing homework, exams, and lecture presentations, and presented class lectures ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics Carnegie Mellon University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/avia-weinstein-a185b375 --- Source: https://flows.cv/avia JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/avia/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01