# Graham Saunders

> Engineering Leader @ Virtuous

Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/grahamsaunders

Engineering leader helping teams build high-quality products. Background in .NET Core, Vue, and Azure. Currently @ Virtuous helping nonprofits raise more money and do more good. 

https://virtuous.org
https://github.com/graham-saunders

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Engineer @ Virtuous
Jan 2025 – Present | Portland, Oregon, United States
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers
- Architect and implement scalable solutions for a rapidly growing team and space
- Driving AI implementation and adoption in the Virtuous product and engineering team
- Foster a culture of excellence and growth through internal learning opportunities, mentoring, lunch and learns, conference attendance, and coordinating technical discussions.

### Director of Engineering @ Virtuous
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Phoenix, Arizona, United States

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Virtuous
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers
- Architect and implement scalable solutions for a rapidly growing team and space

### Senior Lead Engineer @ Virtuous
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- Lead the Giving team and efforts to innovate and stabilize the Virtuous Giving donation platform
- Architect and design solutions
- Implement scalable solutions for a half billion in donation processing

### Senior Software Engineer @ Virtuous
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
• Build features with .NET, React, and Azure Functions.
• Architect and plan feature design and implementation.
• Build high-quality platforms such as a Giving platform, Embeddable Donation Forms, Email A/B Testing, Major Donor Management, and other cutting-edge features to help nonprofits raise more money and do more good.
• Analyze and improve application performance and technical debt using Application Insights and Microsoft SQL tools.
• Implement Azure Event Hubs with serverless functions for event consumption.

### Software Engineer @ Virtuous
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
• Build features including Donations Forms, Tracking Pixel, Smart Donation Suggestions, and implement third-party API integrations.
• Create simple solutions to complex problems.
• Implement new Azure Function event patterns.
• Create processes using serverless functions.

### US Board Member @ The Gem Foundation
Jan 2017 – Present
https://thegemfoundation.com/

### Senior Software Developer @ U-Haul International, Inc
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
• Take charge in building a new Point of Sale and Payment Processing systems used nationwide at U-Haul locations. Built using .NET and Angular JS.
• Assist in leading a team of 10 engineers, including code reviews, pull requests, builds, releases and merges.
• Implement a new payment system into the Point of Sale with PCI compliance, and easy to use interface. Handle all business logic in a service, consumed through the POS.
• Write maintainable and extensible code in a team environment.
• Work on all spectrum's of internal apps, including implementing chip card and EMV
capability in the Point of Sale system, writing extensive unit testing and a mobile-friendly
UI.

### Software Developer @ U-Haul International, Inc
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Phoenix, AZ
• Work on internal apps including the Point of Sale rewrite, traffic management, and
equipment recovery.
• Create documentation around coding standards for company-wide use.
• Debug problems, fix bugs and implement new feature requests from the business units.
• Write custom plugins and reusable tools to be used by other internal applications.

### Web Developer @ ALLIANCE PROTECTION SYSTEMS OF PHOENIX, INC.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Phoenix, AZ
• Develop and design various sales and marketing websites for company use

### Web Development Intern @ Foo Web Development
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
• Develop and design client-based websites
• Debug problems on clients websites

### Web Developer @ Saunders Development LLC
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
- Contracted web developer for various local businesses and nonprofit organizations


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/graham-saunders-30048173

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Last updated: 2026-03-22