# Cyrus Burns > Lead Product Engineer @ Farmblox Location: Greater Boston, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/cyrus Leading product development and design for the Farmblox web and mobile app. ## Work Experience ### Lead Product Engineer @ Farmblox Jan 2025 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States ### Software Engineer @ Farmblox Jan 2024 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States ### Software Engineer @ Audia Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 Auda is a mobile app which allows users to Share and discover new music with friends. Auda builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses around music. • Leveraged React Native with TypeScript and Expo Router to develop a native mobile application for both iOS and Android which allows users to share and discover new music with friends, find communities, and grow businesses. • Utilized Google Cloud storage to engineer a scalable data system, achieving a 50% reduction in data retrieval time, and ensuring control and security over user information while maximizing horizontal and vertical scalability to facilitate optimal growth. • Spearheaded the seamless integration of multiple APIs to elevate user experience and functionality within Auda's platform. • Managed a Node and Express-powered server to handle data flow efficiently and safely. Created a Figma vision board to maintain a high standard for UI/UX decisions and system design flow across the app. • Followed test-driven-development practices to ensure full security throughout the app and minimize technical debt. • Designed the company logo and brand identity with a strategic focus on maximizing user acquisition and engagement. ### Software Engineer @ ReacType Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States ReacType is an innovative prototyping tool that empowers users to dynamically visualize their application architecture. With its intuitive drag-and-drop canvas interface and interactive, real-time component code preview, ReacType facilitates seamless collaboration and connection with peers. • Achieved a 30x improvement in bundle time by strategically restructuring file architecture, continuously updating configuration files, optimizing dependencies, and successfully migrating ReacType’s immense codebase from Webpack to Vite. • Led the ongoing TypeScript conversion initiative, elevating conversion rates from 75% to over 95%. • Used Socket.IO to architect and deploy live chat and collaboration room, fostering seamless real-time bidirectional communication between our server and front-end interfaces, allowing users to engage and create in a time of remote work. • Implemented industry-leading authentication practices in a Node and Express backend, integrating OAuth, bcrypt for password hashing, and JWTs for token-based authentication, ensuring user data security and authentication reliability. • Engineered a scalable and robust video meeting interface by integrating VideoSDK throughout Node.js and Express, optimizing middleware utilization and refining API handling to ensure seamless and uninterrupted conferencing experiences. • Applied Jest to create and refactor unit tests, guaranteeing the functionality of new features without introducing bugs and increasing total test coverage to upwards of 80%. •Employed MUI, Tailwind.css, Shadcd/ui, and Aceturnity within a Next.js structure to craft a sleek and modern landing page design. • Refined state and data flow management within the application by implementing Redux and Redux Toolkit, enhancing control and optimizing data handling across all stages of development and the application lifecycle. ### Software Engineer @ Press Sports - The Athlete Network Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Developed a dynamic website with React and TypeScript, enabling efficient state management and tailored user data display while utilizing reusable components to optimize DOM manipulation for improved rendering performance to optimize UI and UX. Worked with the engineering team in developing the React Native mobile app to enable design continuity from web to mobile. Helped the app grow and acquire 300,000+ users with a 4.9-star overall rating (11.8k ratings). ## Education ### Informatics and Business Indiana University Bloomington ### Leadership School - Patagonia NOLS ### French Language and Literature EF Language Abroad ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cyburns - Portfolio: https://www.cyrusburns.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/cyrus JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/cyrus/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-28