# Bo Bramer

> Senior Software Engineer II @ Inkitt | Co-Founder of ChemTalk

Location: Los Gatos, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/bobramer

I am currently a software engineer at Inkitt where I work on everything using React Native, TypeScript, Kotlin, Swift, you name it 😀

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer II @ Inkitt
Jan 2026 – Present

### Technical Lead - Monetization & Growth @ Inkitt
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Inkitt
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026

### Software Engineer @ Inkitt
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Owned monetization and pricing platform across mobile and web, driving 70%+ gains in D0 RPI, ROAS, and LTV through 50+ experiments and durable infrastructure.
- Designed and shipped a behavior-aware pricing & paywall framework with cohort-stable rollouts, increasing renewals by 30% without sacrificing long-term LTV.
- Architected the company's new landing-page experimentation platform, enabling rapid iteration while improving net ROAS/RPI by 10-20% and reducing CPI/CPM by 5-10%.
- Built and maintained core subscription, pricing, and entitlement infrastructure, ensuring correctness across upgrades, renewals, restorations, and cross-platform edge cases.
- Replaced vendor-dependent video production workflows with automated processing pipelines, eliminating contract labor costs and accelerating creative iteration.
- Set architectural direction across multiple applications and backend services, resolving cross-team dependencies and enabling rapid experimentation across the entire platform.
- Partnered directly with C-suite leadership on time-sensitive, revenue-critical initiatives, translating business strategy into production systems.

### Software Engineer @ Panyon
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Led architecture for a cross-platform health application, spanning React Native, native iOS/Android, OpenGL ES (GLSL), and C.
- Designed a camera-based PPG recording pipeline achieving medical-grade signal quality on commodity smartphones.
- Optimized real-time image processing to sustain 180 hz (5.6 ms/frame) on mobile devices.
- Built reusable signal-processing libraries and high-precision peak-detection algorithm underpinning biomarker extraction.
- Collaborated with medical doctors to translate clinical requirements into robust, production-ready algorithms.
- Designed a low-cost serverless backend using Firebase and AWS (Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway).

### Co-Founder @ ChemTalk
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | California, United States
- Co-founded and scaled a multi-product education platform, owning technical architecture and execution.
- Built and managed a 55+ person organization, leading large cross-functional initiatives including a full platform rebuild.
- Drove 75% YoY traffic growth through CDN optimization, caching strategy, and performance improvements (FCP, LCP).
- Led platform development using Next.js, and React Native, establishing shared infrastructure and engineering standards.

### Software Engineer @ iBored
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Diego, California, United States
- Designed and developed a cross-platform mobile app using React Native with TypeScript, Swift, and Java
- Created and maintained 25+ RESTful and event-driven backend microservices built in Node.js and Java Spring
- Optimized resource-intensive API endpoints to handle 20,000+ TPS with an average response time of 175 ms
- Engineered high-performance, real-time chat system with a focus on minimizing latency using AWS API Gateway and Lambda
- Created automated unit, integration, and E2E tests for API and mobile app using Grafana k6, Postman, and Detox
- Leveraged AWS Route53 and CloudFront distributions to optimize caching and serving of AWS S3 resources
- Managed the CI/CD pipeline and AWS deployment using AWS CloudFormation/CDK and Expo Updates
- Other notable tools include Figma, Next.js, Neo4j, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Docker

### Freelance Software Developer @ Unknown
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
- Developed websites and standalone applications for a diverse set of clients in industries including education, medicine, and healthcare
- Built automation, real-time, and event-driven applications
- Designed interactive tools for optimally displaying website content
- Increased SEO performance for focus keywords
- Leveraged AWS, Google Firebase, and MongoDB Atlas for cloud infrastructure

### Website Developer @ Made with Love at UCI
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | University of California Irvine, California, United States
- Built and maintained club website
- Created tools for communication between board members
- Leveraged Discord's Bot API to build an interactive bot for the club's Discord server

### Founder/Software Developer @ Home Synthesis
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Irvine, California, United States
- Built desktop application for interacting with molecules in 3D space
- Developed custom lightweight 3D graphics engine in Java with OpenGL and GLSL
- Implemented computational physics and chemistry algorithms such as the Hartree-Fock method
- Designed a data structure for efficiently storing sets of molecules

### Vice President @ International Anteater Association
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | University of California Irvine, California, United States
- Built and maintained club website
- Organized workshops for domestic and international students
- Efficiently allocated work to different board members to fulfil the goals of the organization


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
UC Irvine

### Los Gatos High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bo-bramer
- Website: https://bo-bramer.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-01