# Becca Dudley > Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Full Stack Engineer | Rails, Ruby, Javascript, React, Go, SQL, GraphQL | Mechanical Keyboard Enthusiast and Bird Person Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/beccadudley When I'm not writing quality code, you'll find me building mechanical keyboards, making homemade pasta from scratch, or spending time with my pet Cockatiel. I am a Full Stack Engineer with 8 years of experience, specializing in backend development with Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and Go. I thrive on transforming ambiguous requirements into clear technical roadmaps and deliverable products. As a technical lead across multiple projects, I've guided teams through complex problem-solving while maintaining focus on user needs. My experience spans React, REST, GraphQL, SQL, Java, and AWS infrastructure, with particular expertise developing HR technology solutions that help people feel more valued at work, ultimately boosting both wellbeing and productivity. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Gusto Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Principal Software Engineer @ Reward Gateway Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 • Led feature development (GraphQL, JS, Go) to generalize the existing fitness contest progress and outcome sharing feature so that authoring was streamlined across existing platforms (Slack, MS Teams) and future-proofed for the addition of new social platform additions. • Navigated the post-acquisition product wind-down, and supported the integration into the new product by exporting analytics, documenting APIs and supporting the customer success team to achieve 90% client retention rate. ### Principal Software Engineer @ Fond Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area • Provided technical leadership for a 5-person backend team by managing task assignments and priorities, debating design and architectural decisions, and pair programming with junior engineers. • Led, designed and drove implementation of a top-requested customization for companies with international employees who wanted to send value-appropriate rewards on a per-country basis and later became the Sales team’s greatest tool for closing new companies. • Proposed, designed and led the refactor of the user management system to integrate three disparate user creation processes into one integrated approach leading to an improvement in conversion rates due to fewer issues with sign up. • Addressed low team-morale by establishing retrospective meetings to provide an outlet for suggestions, observations and grievances so that vague tensions could be aired, discussed and translated into actionable tasks resulting in high-engagement conversations and sense of team ownership. ### Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead @ Fond Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Senior Software Engineer @ Fond Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 • Advocated for, planned, and led the modernization of core systems which included enabling an upgrade from Rails 4 to Rails 5, updating and overhauling all database model relations, rewriting controllers to use then-current standards, and deprecating outdated logic to ensure the company's ability to maintain SOC 2 Type 2 compliance and retain major clients (Salesforce, Visa) for the business. • Built templates for Jira Issues to improve Customer Support ticket quality leading to 2x the number of issues getting resolved by engineers and 10% improvement to NPS. • Drove feature enhancement for reporting system, enabling drill-down functionality for administrators which used advanced SQL queries to handle complex data relationships. ### Software Engineer @ Fond Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 Fond helps organizations across industries strengthen their company cultures through an ongoing commitment to employee happiness. Our employee engagement products are intuitively designed and flexible so companies can tailor rewards, recognition, perks and sentiment measurement programs for maximum impact. ### Software Development Engineer, Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Redmond, Washington • Constructed a test plan documenting User Stories, Use Cases, and Test Cases for new features in the integration of Facebook into Microsoft OneDrive’s contact list and sharing functionality. • Automated the integration and stress test process using C# and PowerShell to ensure feature compatibility. • Updated and refactored internal tool for generating mock OneDrive accounts using C#, eliminating redundant code (DRY principle), and developed new CLI to simplify the UI. • Followed Scrum agile methodologies which included daily standups, weekly sprints, and task management. ### Software Engineer, Intern @ Oracle Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Bala Cynwyd, PA • Maintained legacy enterprise software written in Java and constructed new UI’s for PM software using JavaScript. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Software Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/beccacdudley --- Source: https://flows.cv/beccadudley JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/beccadudley/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22