# Dixon Minnick

> Staff Software Engineer (Front-End) at arqu

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dixon

Software Engineer • Front End Guy • Burrito Enthusiast

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ arqu
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Stealth Startup
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Using NextJS, TypeScript, React and Tailwind to build an MVP webapp for a pre-seed startup working with AI.

### Senior Software Engineer @ RxSense
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
Member Portal (v1) Team (May-Nov 2020)
- Refactored a white-label pharmacy benefit member experience for the web using vue.js integrated with a CMS for custom branding, including a full redesign of asynchronous multi-endpoint pharmacy pricing tool

RxAgile Alpha Team (Nov 2020 - Nov 2021)
- Implemented a redesign of a pharmacy network pricing administration tool using vue.js
- Implemented a redesign of a conflicted record resolution UI within the admin tool using vue.js

Member Portal (v2) Team (Nov 2021 - Jan 2023)
- Architected and implemented a full ground-up refactor of the white-label pharmacy benefit member experience using React, TypeScript, React Hooks, Styled Components, and material-ui.
- Planned and implemented unit-testing and documentation strategies for the codebase using Jest, TS-Doc, and Storybook, including a custom Storybook control to display custom-branding of white-label components, and mock application data test utils.
- Added setting configuration pages to the member experience administration tool using vue.js
- Migrated core application logic from a 1-to-1-to-many relationship of login-to-benefit record-to-profiles to a 1-to-many-to-many relationship, along with the corresponding UI components and API interfaces.
- Reviewed front-end code across teams owing to time spent working on different product teams and being familiar with multiple codebases.

### Software Engineer @ Vector
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California
- Crafting schema-based user interfaces rendered with react
- Implementing and documenting git workflow and best practices for the engineering team
- Architected and implemented a rendition billing user interface refactor

### Webmaster @ Lake Merritt Rowing Club - LMRC
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Oakland, CA
I need to list this as work experience so I can manage LMRC's LinkedIn presence, but I am only doing this in a volunteer capacity

### Software Engineer @ Chegg Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Front-End Engineer on the Tutors team, architecting and developing features, and fixing bugs
- Architected & implemented migration of Tutors front end from backbone to ES6, React & Redux
- Implemented A/B tests for multiple features incl. lesson scheduler, lesson request form, etc.
- Architected, prototyped and implemented chat-based tutoring client from its inception using TypeScript, React, Redux, Styled Components and a 3rd party messaging API
- Chegg Styled cross-team initiative migrating style guide CSS to shared Styled Component library
- Implemented front end migration of Tutors to Chegg-wide auth system
- Used WCAG and ADA Web Accessibility training to write accessible front-end code

### Software Engineer @ Chatous
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
As a front-end engineer on the Kiwi Web Team, I am regularly responsible for adding new features and fixing bugs on the Kiwi.qa social network, using HTML5, Javascript, JSON, SASS, jQuery, EJS, ReactJS, Bootstrap and other plugins. Some major features I worked on include: replies/comments interface, public questions, nearby questions, messenger, discover, notifications and more answers.

### Software Development, NewsEdge Software Dev Team @ Acquire Media
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Burlington, MA
Adding new features to and fixed bugs on NewsEdge.com web software platform using html, javascript, css, jQuery, AJAX and XML as part of a regular product development cycle

Developer on a project to build a mobile-optimized platform containing a subset of features of NewsEdge using jQuery Mobile, JSON and a NodeJS server that I wrote.

Worked on a project to incorporate some of the aforementioned mobile features into iOS and Android native apps using Cordova.

### Undergraduate Student @ Tufts University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015
Graduated in 2015 with BS in Computer Science

Studied Web Development, Concurrent Programming, Data Structures, Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Functional Programming, Computation Theory, Machine Level Programming. Classes used C, C++, Java, Python, Erlang, ML, others.

Competed on the Tufts Men's Varsity Crew Team and the Tufts Alpine Ski Team.

### Field Manager @ Massachusetts Fair Share
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Organized teams of canvassers to inform members of the public about local and national policy issues

Canvassed to inform members of the public about local and national policy issues


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Tufts University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### High School Diploma in General Studies
Boise Senior High School
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dixonminnick
- Website: http://www.minnick.co

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Last updated: 2026-03-22