# Brian Saavedra

> Software Engineer at Assembled

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/briansaavedra

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Assembled
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States
Contact data team

### Software Engineer @ Yext
Jan 2017 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States
Tech Lead, Developer Tools Team (2023-2024)
Create team epics, and monitor creation and execution of breakdowns.
Ensure team maintains high code quality through detailed code reviews
Project manage the team roadmap; interface with other engineering teams to monitor dependencies
and the upstream / downstream impact

Developer Tools Team (2019-2023)
Developed a new Go-based CLI tool that allowed developers to interact with Yext CI/CD, our code review tool, and other internal utilities effortlessly.
Created a framework for better integration of test results into our code review tool, resulting in 10x faster tests for developers.

Pages Team (2017-2019)
Developed a new React-based WYSIWYG editor for web pages on our platform while working on the pages team.
Worked on scaling issues as the number of customers using our product grew from only beta customers to hundreds of customers with thousands of pages each.

### Software Developer Intern @ IMC Trading
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Designed and implemented an anomaly detection system, including a UI for it that allowed visualization of the data

### Software Engineering Intern @ Lending Club
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco
Wrote command line tools in Go to allow easy access to an in-house DevOps app

### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Computer Graphics Group
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Implemented an algorithm to simplify design of UAVs using data driven methods.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/briansaavedra

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Last updated: 2026-03-29