# Desmond Gee

> Software Engineer

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/desmondgee

Has over 6 years of experience in Ruby on Rails and a couple of years using Elixir Phoenix. Experience is evenly split between frontend and backend. Writes reliable and easily maintainable code, a great communicator and always eager to improve skill sets.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Doximity
Jan 2021 – Present

### Software Engineer @ The RealReal
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Transitioned pieces of a Ruby on Rails monolith into Elixir Phoenix microservice apps.
* Exposed web server components to a RESTful API layer built in Golang for mobile consumption to expand mobile feature sets. Later migrated API layer into GraphQL built with Absinthe and Elixir Phoenix.
* Spiked migration of search services from ElasticSearch to Algolia as a hackathon project which later resulted in a full transition to Algolia.
* Streamlined and removed bottlenecks in the internal photography and retouching pipeline by integrating Aspera for file transfers and numerous automation scripts.
* Expanded marketing capabilities for promotions, email campaigns and in-site product suggestions.
* Increased sales through a large number of A/B tested(via Optimizely) UX improvements and similarly increased product counts through consignor UX improvements.

### Software Engineer @ Kaidoora
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Fullstack rails development:
  * Designed and developed front-end web ordering system using combination of Bootstrap 3.0, RequireJS, UnderscoreJS, BackboneJS, and MarionetteJS.
  * Developed a significant amount of back-end structure including login, validations, data modeling, administration.
  * Unit testing via RSpec(which using Capybara and Selenium).

### Software Engineer Intern @ Chronic Logic LLC
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
- Added higher resolution support for the Steam release of BridgeIt editing code in C++ and JET 3D engine.
- Update code for GUI in many areas to be able to adapt to newer resolutions.
- Wrote a short-hand code converter in C++ for faster GUI deployment.
- Updated validation of registration key.
- Worked on an in-house game project written in C# and XNA.

### General Programmer @ Grindwork Corporation
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
- Designed and engineered from the ground up a 3D skeleton editor for 2D graphics in AS3.0 with features including animations, sprite swapping, onion layers and tweening.
- Wrote front-end GUI using for professional auditing software using Adobe Flex.
- Developed automatic scripts for importing vector art from Adobe Illustrator to Adobe Flash.
- Wrote uploader software for art and other assets using Adobe AIR


## Education
### BS in Biochemical Engineering
San José State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/desmond-gee-44081367

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Last updated: 2026-04-11