# Eugene Shuster > Senior Software Engineer, API Integrations, Team Lead Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/eugeneshuster I’m passionate about the intersection of high technology with meaningful purpose. The best moments in my career have been working cross-functionally on products that have had a real-life impact. I’m looking for an engineering position within a team that really values all types of collaboration to combine strengths in order to develop the best product possible. I believe that a strong and meaningful product along with a strong company culture and morals will drive work ethic all the way through to the end result. I’m confident that I can use my experience in development, teamwork, and leadership to achieve just that. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer, API Integrations, Team Lead @ Twist Bioscience Jan 2023 – Present | South San Francisco, California, United States • Led B2B development initiatives to scale technical capabilities, streamlining customer onboarding and enhancing PunchOut quote and order processing efficiency. • Allocated and distributed work capacity within the team, ensuring effective task assignment to meet business goals while meeting own workload. • Implemented, configured, and deployed an automated email alert system within internal middleware, ensuring timely notifications of order issues to key stakeholders. • Served as the primary point of contact for B2B production issues, effectively resolving customer concerns through log analysis, data history troubleshooting, and direct client collaboration. • Drove team efforts to design and redesign services to support decoupling of the existing platform architecture, utilizing a multi-step process including architecture review, work breakdown, task assignment, and implementation. ### Senior Software Engineer, Bioinformatics @ Guardant Health Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Redwood City, California, United States • Enabled automated lab workflow processing through Kafka message brokering and consumption, and data persistence that eliminated the need for human intervention to allow sequences of workflows to be run in scale.  • Responsible for creating and implementing math-based algorithms based on laboratory equations that calculated various characteristics of DNA like fluorescence and concentration. • Using Python and Django, designed and managed a configurable notification service that utilized emails and Slack channels specified in yaml configuration files to send messages in response to configurable predetermined database events. • Designed and created a programmatic system of preparing internal lab-based resources allowing lab operators opportunities to recover any bad data by having the ability to start at any workflow within a sequence and finish in an automated fashion. • Led many cross-functional system and software design meetings in which designs were created, discussed, and planned to be implemented to become new features.  • Provided consistent cross-functional support to various teams including the lab through database-affecting python scripts and admin console support to address any immediate issues that would have impacted crucial test results. ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ CareLinx Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Burlingame, CA • Created a seamless end-to-end caretaker hiring flow by integrating with third-party APIs that improved payment processing and background checking.  • Corrected data corruption and management issues affecting PSQL databases and AWS server reliability by identifying and implementing improvements including data utilization and standardization, and external and internal API communication.    • Served as the engineering partner to product management in the assessment, re-design, and resolution of key UX flow processes that were causing revenue loss; redesigned backend logic and implemented Django backend and React frontend changes to resolve. • Rapidly iterated the design, organization, and development of sitemaps, collaborating with the product team to identify experiments, tests, and improvements increasing overall SEO rank to a consistent 91 Score across all pages.  • Took ownership of testing API and platform performance by writing exhaustive unit tests for new or refactored APIs. ### Full Stack Software Engineer, Internal Tools Project Lead @ Survey.com Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Took the lead and managed technical debt reduction efforts requiring the refactoring, optimization, and organization of backend .NET legacy code across multiple applications; work resulted in drastically reduced server workload through efficiency, memory management, MongoDB utilization and inter-service communication. • Owned the internal re-tooling initiative including defining requirements through internal stakeholder interviews, building prioritization consensus, and development; efforts resulted in over 50% efficiency for daily QA activities. • Improved internal platform frontend Angular functions to meet UI/UX requirements and improve performance related to load time and usability. ### Senior Software Engineer, Microservices and Security Project Lead @ Sherpa Digital Media Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Redwood City, CA • Satisfied internal stakeholder and customer requirements through frequent meetings to discuss custom features and balanced those feature requests against the current goals of the company. • Identified solutions for competing stakeholder preferences by defining scope, objectives, and timelines on a per-project basis. • Designed, implemented, and managed all aspects of the platform’s custom token-based security system through dynamic access control to modulate restrictions based on client security preferences and network setup. • Architected and managed the platform’s extensive network of .NET and NodeJS microservices by defining core requirements, security standards, and RESTful practices with scalability in mind. • Analyzed and optimized the platform's AWS SQL databases and EC2 instances through diligent monitoring, performance evaluations, and frequent updates. ### Recent Dev Bootcamp Graduate @ Dev Bootcamp Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Dev Bootcamp is a 3 month, 1000-hour intensive web development accelerated training with emphasis on Ruby on Rails and Javascript/Query. - Spent over 1,000 hours either in lecture, solo or pair-programming, or participating in Dev Bootcamp cultural events like pair-programming and engineering empathy sessions. - Built web applications using RESTful routes and object-oriented design while testing using Test-driven Development alongside,RSpec and Jasmine. - Alongside 3 other students, created a web application called 2TR, which helps newer coders to receive live-video help from tutors on demand. Technologies learned: Git, Heroku, Ruby, Rails 4, ActiveRecord, Sinatra, Rspec Javascript, JQuery, Ajax, Jasmine, Handlebars, SQL, PostgreSQL. ### Intern/Veterinary Assistant @ University Veterinary Hospital Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Berkeley, CA - Assisted the Vet-techs with their animal patients. - Shadowed the veterinarian while he was examining patients. - Maintained the facilities by cleaning and restocking. ### Prep-Lab Assistant @ Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Berkeley, CA - Organized the Prep-Lab while checking for anything out of place. - Prepared many specimens to be used for future research by the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. - Assisted various researchers in specimen examinations. ### Certified Personal Trainer @ UC Berkeley Recreational Sports Facility Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 ### Animal Caretaker @ Eileen Lacey Lab, UC Berkeley Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Berkeley, CA - Cleaned and maintained tuco-tuco rodent systems and cages. - Provided fresh food and nourishment to all tuco-tucos. - Performed monthly health checks on adult and juvenile tuco-tucos by weighing, clipping nails, and checking for signs of various diseases. ### Primate Behavior Researcher @ Danta, Association for Conservation of the Tropics Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica - Was introduced and taught various behavioral sampling and population surveying techniques to effectively do research in outdoor environments - Completed a two week research project regarding howler monkey feeding habits in the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ### Recent Dev Bootcamp Graduate in Full-Stack Web Development Dev Bootcamp Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ### Certified Personal Trainer in Human Kinesiology Nation Academy of Sports Medicine Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 ### Full Stack Developer in Computer Software Engineering Dev Bootcamp Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/eugene-shuster --- Source: https://flows.cv/eugeneshuster JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/eugeneshuster/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22