# Connor Stauffer > Full Stack Software Engineer Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/connorstauffer Software Engineer building full-stack web and mobile applications. Passionate about delivering ambitious product features fast, without compromising on code quality or scalability. Languages: Typescript, Javascript, Ruby, Elixir, Python Frameworks: Next.js, Serverless, Ruby on Rails, Phoenix Backend: GraphQL, REST, Node, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis Frontend: React, React Native, Apollo, Angular, HTML5, CSS3, CSS Modules Development: AWS, Git, Travis, iOS, Android ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2024 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Co-Founder & Technical Advisor @ Kickoff Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ### Founding Full Stack Software Engineer @ Kickoff Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | Boulder, Colorado, United States Owned the stack from end-to-end: Founding, maintaining, and constantly improving our web app, mobile app, marketing pages, API, database, background jobs, and cloud infrastructure Consistently and pragmatically scaled all areas of the app to handle rapidly increasing traffic • Progressively shifted towards an async, event driven backend to reduce latency on user facing APIs and increase resilience of the system • Replaced polling with WebSocket subscriptions to decrease API calls per session by an order of magnitude, driving down CPU usage and cloud costs • Introduced a Redis cluster to cache external API calls, expensive database operations, and rate limit our GraphQL service at the field level to protect against DDoS attacks • Implemented custom data loaders to achieve declarative batch querying and eliminate N+1 queries across the GraphQL service • Introduced a MySQL read replica and Redshift instance to handle analytics workloads Optimized the developer experience to enable engineers to ship impactful features rapidly • Supported iOS, Android, and web clients from a single backend, improving developer velocity and reducing cloud costs • Automated zero-downtime deploy of all front and backend services with Travis CI • Sped up development and improved testability by creating a declarative data seeding library to populate realistic test data for all models • Migrated from Javascript to Typescript, achieving end-to-end type safety and transparency into issues at build time Hired and trained ten developers to scale the engineering team • Built an interviewing pipeline with a bespoke take-home assessment to qualify engineers our self-driven team • Managed ten engineers, ensuring role progression and fulfillment with work through bi-weekly 1:1s and allocating projects aligned with skills and interests • Led 6 month 360 performance reviews with a format reflecting company values and engineering requirements ### Senior Software Engineer @ BuildZoom Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Integrated React + Redux + Webpack into our Rails + Angular 1.x application to build out a WYSIWYG editor used to create work proposals + invoices • Led teams of engineers through critical end-to-end projects by architecting sustainable solutions, breaking down and delegating work, and reviewing code to enforce quality and consistency • Managed interns and new engineers by teaching about our codebase, general web dev concepts, and best practices ### Software Engineer @ BuildZoom Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area • Led a full rebuild of the internal tool suite that drives the core business • Shipped high quality Rails, Angular and React code to production on a weekly basis • Interviewed engineering candidates at all phases of hiring process, assessing technical and soft skills ### Business Analyst @ Consensus Corporation Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area • Automated SQL queries with Python scripts to deliver client data more promptly and accurately • Generated custom Tableau reports on company performance to inform upper management and drive strategic business decisions • Implemented a cloud-based sales pipeline to manage domestic and international client prospects. Lead a bi-weekly meeting with management to review and update the pipeline • Contributed to the development of a custom model that predicted future revenue of our company through industry figures, past performance, and incoming business • Designed and created a company datasheet to summarize the functional specifications of our software ### Project Manager @ Consensus Corporation Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area • Coordinated teams of developers on core product enhancements using the Agile methodology • Constructed requirements and user stories(conforming to Agile best practices) for a major enhancement to core product offering • Worked directly with a team from a major U.S. retailer to launch a new product offering through our Ecommerce and POS software solutions • Contributed to a company-wide overhaul of documentation processes by customizing and training employees on Confluence software ### Business Intelligence Intern @ Consensus Corporation Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area • Contributed reporting templates to our client-facing BI service, enabling greater transparency into consumer habits and requirements ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematical Economics University of Richmond Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/connorstauffer --- Source: https://flows.cv/connorstauffer JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/connorstauffer/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29