# Frank Shaw

> Software Developer

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/frankshaw

UC Davis graduate with a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering. Worked in industry for a year before making a career switch to software development. Software is amazing. From the development process, the community, to the vast extent of software. There are so many companies on a mission to make the world a better place, that is exactly where I want to be.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ TikTok USDS Joint Venture
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | San Jose, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ PrivacyLabs
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
The company's goal is making security easy and accessible for enterprises of all sizes. 

Some of the features I accomplished:
• Developed LLM assisted content generation, Implemented an LLM “choose your own adventure" feature in React, utilizing ChatGPT's log probabilities. This allows users to generate assisted content for product marketing material effortlessly.
• Leveraged ChatGPT's capabilities to enhance content generation by implementing custom function calls. These functions can perform various tasks, such as making network requests to retrieve or modify data, which can then be integrated into the language model's response flow.

### Software Engineer @ Nextdoor
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Spearheaded the development of Nextdoor Groups from concept to launch, leading mobile web and web development while collaborating with mobile developers to create a product used weekly by hundreds of thousands of users.

•Increased Nextdoor’s overall user content creation by 15%, significantly boosting company-wide user engagement metrics.
•Led the migration of Nextdoor Groups web services from REST to GraphQL, improving overall p75 latency times by 10% and streamlining data access between mobile and web clients.
•Architected and implemented the Nextdoor Groups mobile web and web interface using React, collaborating closely with designers to create an intuitive UI based on Figma designs.
•Implemented server driven UI in collaboration with mobile developers, ensuring consistent user experience across platforms and enabling rapid A/B testing.

### Web Developer @ Roostify
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco
I joined as the 3nd engineer at Roostify. I have had the opportunity to help scale the engineering organization to the height of 25+ engineers. I have worked on projects such as:

• Platform Api
• Customizable User Authorization Controls
• Restructuring Data Models for Additional System Flexibility and Performance
• Internal Exception Handling and Logging Application
• Encrypted Business Information Extractor

I enjoy building impactful software that helps guide people in their largest transaction in life!


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Davis


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/fhshaw

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Last updated: 2026-04-01