# Elvan Gaunder

> Staff Software Engineer

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

JavaScript, React.js, Redux, jQuery, Express.js, Node.js, Nginx, PHP, Yii2, Apache, Responsive Design, MySQL, Mongodb.

Other: AWS, Git, REST API Development, Bash Scripting, Linux.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Rise
Jan 2024 – Present | Ohio, United States

### Lead Software Engineer @ ShoppingGives
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
ShoppingGives stands out as an all-in-one impact strategy, offering businesses a unique opportunity to provide customers with a seamless and native giving experience throughout their shopping journey. This social impact platform not only aligns businesses with non-profit organizations but also with consumer values, making it a powerful tool for businesses looking to make a difference.

- Lead Software Engineer for the development team.
- Responsible for architecting and technically designing new features to enhance giving.
- Worked with Event Sourcing/CQRS/RabbitMq to facilitate Event-Driven Architecture.
- Built new APIs and Microservices using technologies such as Typescript, C#, PostgreSQL, and 
   RabbitMq.
- Spearheaded the initiative to reduce cloud infrastructure costs by 30% in AWS.
- Built a framework to improve integration/unit testing throughout the stack using Typescript and 
   Sequelize.
- Improved CICD pipelines using technologies like Github Actions/AWS/ECS/Fargate and Docker.
- Worked heavily in AWS, leveraging Terraform to manage the cloud infrastructure via IAC.
- Built a Typescript Serverless API to support tight integration with Stripe API.
- Responsible for ensuring code quality and the timely delivery of new features.
- Mentored junior and intermediate developers.

### Senior Full Stack Engineer @ Songclip™
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Songclip™ is the first Social Music API, offering a systemized solution for integrating and monetizing music across social and digital platforms, making music part of what's being created, shared, and sent.

- Developed a distributed system of microservices that supported the content ingestion flow.
- Created a GraphQL API that services multiple client/administration applications.
- Built a REST API for asset delivery while conforming to strict music industry standards.
- Built complex compound queries in Elasticsearch to improve Songclip's search engine.
- Built client-side applications in REACT/REDUX/NODE for sales purposes.
- Worked on migrating legacy code to Typescript.
- Used Terraform to migrate legacy GCP cloud infrastructure.
- Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by 50% in AWS.
- Migrated traditional EC2 deployments to Kubernetes.
- Improved CICD integration by using tools such as Docker and GitHub Actions.

### Full Stack Software Engineer @ UtilityScore
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Oakland, California
UtilityScore is an API that estimates utility costs for 100+ million homes in the U.S.  It brings a new level of transparency to assess the true costs of buying, renting, and renovating homes.

- Developed a PWA using React and Node for sales purposes.
- Migrated legacy client UI web pages to React.js.
- Reduced labor times by 60% by optimizing a multi-threaded batch processing task which monthly.
- Responsible for DevOps related tasks.
- Worked on Iframe development that were used within partner web pages.
- Deployed a non-managed Master/Slave MySQL database for high availability.
- Maintained the primary website developed with PHP/JQuery/HTML/CSS.
- Developed web application using React/Redux/Node.
- Developed an SMTP server using Haraka.js to act as a man in the middle service.
- Implemented Test Driven Development methodologies to improve code reliability.
- Maintained cloud infrastructure on AWS.

### Frontend Developer @ Bloodonor
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Santa Clara, Ca
Bloodonor provides an easy way for users to have more control on how their blood donation are being used.

- Designed and implemented a client side scheduling application using React and Redux
- Implemented responsive design using BEM-style SASS
- Collaborated as a remote member or an Agile team


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
California State University - East Bay


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/elvan
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/elvan/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-01