# Flarnie Marchan > Staff Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/flarnie I'm Flarnie Marchan. I'm a staff software engineer, tech lead, indie game developer, and open source hacker. My goal is to build high quality software in an efficient way, while also generating a healthy and collaborative team culture. Find me online: github.com/flarnie flarnie.com https://universeodon.com/@Flarnie Specialties: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Redux, Apollo, Next.js, Relay, jQuery, HTML/CSS, PHP, SASS/LESS, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, TDD, Pair Programming, all things web ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Hustle Jan 2024 – Present ### Founder / Solo Developer @ Blue Five Games Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Started my own indie game development company. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Chegg Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area 2023: - Led the infrastructure team supporting chegg.com, with a focus on improving CI/CD pipeline stability and speed. - Led roadmap planning, tracked progress towards goals, gave weekly reports to management and directors. - Educating and advocating for CI/CD best practices. - Responsible for guiding the infrastructure team's technical decisions on dependency updates, test coverage, linting, coding best practices, and hundreds of components/utilities shared across teams and used on Chegg.com. 2022: - Tech lead of the team of front end engineers launching new features, experiments, and rapid iteration on high visibility flow/pages on chegg.com. - Founded the "Pipeline Heroes"; a cross team alliance of CI/CD experts who triage and assist with keeping the CI/CD pipeline running. - Led working group across all US teams (10+) to improve, standardize, and streamline the SWE interview process. - Wrote the questions and process for front-end interviews and trained over a dozen engineers to conduct interviews. 2021: - Led an alliance of 3 teams to rewrite Chegg.com with new improved UX, branding, and tech stack. - Wrote and maintained the "Front End Coding Best Practices" used for governing code review 2020: - Lead team of FE engineers to deliver products/features resulting in ~700% revenue growth for our product area, vastly exceeding revenue goals, and maintaining technical stability during rapid ~800% growth in product usage. - Lead/maintained innersource projects laying foundation of TypeScript infrastructure and best practices across all (10+) teams. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Chegg Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 - Leading a team of FE engineers to build a greenfield projects, delivering high stability and quality on a short timeline. - Curating UI Tech Standards used across all web development teams and organizing company-wide UI Summit, resulting in roadmap and standards for UI at Chegg at end of 2019, going into 2020. - Led working group to enhance and improve the Engineering Career Ladder, resulting in useful detail and clarity for engineers across the organization. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 - Leading integration of new React.js asynchronous scheduling features with existing Facebook JS infrastructure. - Improved a11y and UX on redesigned Reactjs.org docs site, leading to a spike in OS contribution and an increase from ~600k to almost 900k monthly visits. - Maintaining and improving Draft.js project with positive impact; increasing Facebook adoption by ~46% and more than doubling monthly open source downloads during late 2017. - Top interviewer, with 3x average number of interviews and highly rated skill. - Contributed to launch of redesigned CRM tool, leading to 37% faster page load and 63% faster page transitions. - Led successful cross-team effort to increase test coverage for internal sales tools. - Led development of widely adopted full featured data table component, used in Facebook's sales and enterprise tools. ### Software Engineer @ Brigade Media Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 - Built the web UI for Brigade's beta launch as part of a small, highly skilled web team. - Hired and trained two new team members in collaboration with my mentor, leading to a rapid increase in the team's speed and efficiency. - Led a study group about React.js, contributing to successful adoption of React.js by the web team in order to build performant web interfaces. - Presented research and code examples demonstrating the Flux front end architecture and collaborated to migrate from an existing Backbone.js architecture to Flux, solving several bugs immediately and allowing the application to scale effectively. ### Software Engineer @ Causes.com Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Implemented new features for Causes.com based on design mock-ups and product requirements. ### Software Engineering Teaching Assistant @ App Academy Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, California App Academy is a 9 week intensive web development training course in San Francisco, California. http://www.appacademy.io ### Student Software Engineeer @ App Academy Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Leveling up skills in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Backbone.js, SQL, and more in 9 weeks. ### Freelance Web Designer and Developer @ Flarnie Marchan Technology and Design Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | South Florida ## Education ### App Academy ### B.A. in Art Education and Social Justice Hampshire College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/flarnie --- Source: https://flows.cv/flarnie JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/flarnie/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01