# Hannah Pedersen > Senior Software Engineer 2 at Instacart πŸ₯• Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/hannahpedersen Full stack engineer working primarily in React/Ruby ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Instacart Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, CA Team lead for the Instacart+ core team, driving the evolution of our subscription infrastructure. I focus on long-term architecture, cross-team alignment, and building scalable systems that unlock new growth and opportunities. ### Software Engineer @ Scribd Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States At Scribd, engineers take ownership of projects from an early stage by writing tech docs and breaking down work along side of designers, and product managers. My team focuses on bettering the subscriber experience while still emphasizing accessibility and testing. ### Software Engineer @ BuildZoom Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Working with a small number of engineers has allowed me to work throughout our react, ruby, and angular codebase to become familiar in all of these areas. At BuildZoom, the engineering team strives to solve difficult questions through collaboration and individual trust in the team's capabilities. ### Resident Assistant @ New York University Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area Selected from 800 applicants to help manage a building of 2,000 students, 70 of which responded directly to me. Led the Health and Wellness initiative for the building, contacting local businesses and speakers to put together monthly events. ### Grader @ New York University Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area Grade assignments and final projects for Applied Internet Technology, a class which gives a hands on introduction to creating websites, covering JavaScript, server side programming, storing data, client side programming, and client side build out. Uses technologies such as Node.js, MongoDB, Express, HTML, CSS, Git, and ESLint. ### Coach @ Code Speak Labs Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Manhattan, New York Tutor children K-7 in both private and classroom settings to teach the basics of computer science. Have instructed using MIT’s Scratch, BitsBox , Dash, and Code.org. Design lesson plans for classrooms and lead class for 30+ kids at a time, while keeping classroom order and answering questions. ### Software Engineering Intern @ BuildZoom Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California Worked with a small team of engineers on both the front and back end. Worked and became proficient in Ruby on Rails, MySQL, AngularJS, HTML, and Sass. Helped design and implement the data structures and code refactor for BuildZoom's communication preferences. ### Summer Intern @ Google Summer of Code Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Successfully completed an open source project for Google Summer of Code. Spent three months creating a cooking skill for the Amazon Echo, which would find and read recipes and respond to questions about that recipe. Set my own goals and milestones while blogging daily about difficulties and successes. Found an open source recipe database to scrape and became efficient in AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB, multithreading, web scraping, and Echo skill production. Fully documented and organized all work on GitHub. ### Welcome Week Leader @ New York University Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | New York, New York Selected to be a leader for Welcome Week, a weeklong orientation for new student at New York University this fall. Went through extensive training about creating inclusive spaces, handling difficult situations, and working as a team. Managed crowds of over 2,000 people, assisted in bus loading, led walking tours of New York City and performed comedy on stage in front of 500 students. ### Hostess @ Finca Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Organized all reservations and server areas to create smooth flowing shifts, helped run food and bus tables when necessary, customer service ### Jury Clerk @ Utah Federal Court House Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Worked in the Jury department, sent out and processed jury-duty surveys, worked on projects for increased proficiency in multiple departments of the courthouse. ### Book Lister @ Central Book Exchange Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Entered all incoming inventory (books) into the business’s database. Also worked as cashier and in customer service roles. ## Education ### Computer Science New York University Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ### West High School Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hannah-pedersen-0a4794ab --- Source: https://flows.cv/hannahpedersen JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/hannahpedersen/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22