# Elden Seropian > Senior Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/elden I want to use my engineering skills to do good in the world. I'm passionate about diverse and inclusive workplaces, sustainable engineering practices, mentoring others, and eliminating technical debt. Experience at Asana: • As a tech lead, led several teams of up to 5. Defined team missions, roadmap, and processes. Handled coordination and collaboration with other engineering teams, designers, and project managers. Mentored team members in technical skills, communication, and project leadership. • As an engineer, designed and implemented projects critical to team success in different areas of the company. Notable projects include improving test performance (framework), integrating apps with the automations engine (platform), rewriting the Conversations feature (product), and rebuilding the deployment pipeline (infrastructure). • Mentored 20+ coworkers in topics ranging from foundational technical skills to team leadership. • Founded and co-led Team Rainbow, Asana's Queer Employee Resource group. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Color Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Software Engineer - Framework @ Asana Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States • Researched, documented, and prototyped projects to increase engineering velocity by reducing test runtimes and modernizing a large legacy codebase. • Evolved team's processes and mentored teammates on technical design. ### Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead - Platform @ Asana Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States • Partnered with team's manager to define scope, mission, roadmap, and processes for a new team of 4 engineers. • Designed and built frameworks that allow external developers to create more first-class integrations, including presenting app-specific UI directly within the Asana app and leveraging existing Asana features like the automations engine. These projects required extensive cross-team collaboration. • Coached team members to lead team-wide projects. ### Software Engineer & Tech Lead - Product @ Asana Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States • Led full-stack projects to rewrite existing features from scratch in new React-based framework. • Worked cross-functionally with infrastructure to implement product changes to unblock further database sharding. ### Software Engineer & Tech Lead - Infrastructure @ Asana Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States • Created and led team in response to org need for targeted investment in the deployment system. • Designed and implemented a new deployment system that was 24 times faster, more stable, and better supported oncall engineers. ### Software Engineer - Infrastructure @ Asana Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area • Architected a system to automate machine upgrades and allow safe experimentation with machine configurations. System is still in use 4 years later. • Rebuilt server launching infrastructure, reducing server launch times by 90%. • Modernized existing infrastructure with bazel building, kubernetes microservices, and exploring third-party server configuration technologies. • Rewrote the server computed value framework to be easier for developers to use. • Reduced page load times for large organizations. ### Software Engineer @ Transcapsule Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Remote Rapidly prototyped an Android/iOS application with React Native to allow transgender people to track their transitions. ### Software Development Intern @ B-Line Medical Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Created question builder site using reusable angular.js components. Wrote node.js backend to hook site up to existing SQL databases with sqlite. Managed build configuration with grunt.js. ### Software Development Intern @ Rest Devices, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Boston, MA Worked extensively on node.js server for a smart baby monitor. Implemented firmware updates for monitor, internal dashboard of connected devices, and live streaming of audio from monitor to iPhone app. ### Engineering Practicum Intern @ Google Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA Developed web tools that provide a user-friendly interface for creating, viewing, and abstracting XML queries to a flight search engine, for both internal and external usage. Invited to continue into the Fall Semester as a part-time developer. Maintained and updated code for extensive tool suite. Used machine learning techniques to cluster custom XML flight search queries for analytics purposes. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/eldenseropian --- Source: https://flows.cv/elden JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/elden/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20