# Helen Medrano

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/helenmedrano

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ SwapXF
Jan 2024 – Present | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Enabling safe, compliant trades

### Software Engineer @ ParentSquare
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Aqui-hired from Remind.

- Worked on POC during hackathon for a google classroom integration
- Worked on POC during hackathon for adding voice clips to messages
- Added a feature for admins to better filter their posts
- Continue to support on-call support for the Remind product
- Sunset Remind Tutoring product
- Work on bugs for SSO, user permissions, and user roles

### Fullstack Software Engineer @ Remind
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote
Acquired by ParentSquare

- Working on Tutoring
- Add notification system to alert participants and tutors of schedule changes
- Add scheduling capabilities to reschedule and add upcoming sessions
- Update sign up flow to promote more followthrough 
- Maintaining systems during on call rotations

### Expert Interview Engineer @ Karat
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Conduct technical interviews in a way that creates a great candidate experience to bring out the best in every engineer. 
Provide structured, and consistent hiring recommendations for clients.

### Apprentice Interview Engineer @ Karat
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Develop crucial skills to conduct smooth technical interviews.

### Principal Software Engineer @ Transparency Global
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
- Automate pulling data from financial resources to populate the database
- Process raw financial data for analysts
- Created a Kubernetes cluster on Amazon
- Created & maintained Keyspaces database on Amazon
- Added authentication with Amazon Cognito
- Worked on responsive frontend to expose data and metrics to authorized users

### Fullstack Software Engineer @ Remind
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Worked on messaging features and bugs.
Added ability for users to send personalized voice messages to users.
Updated message language translations to allow users to edit message for individual languages.

### Software Engineer @ Versus Systems
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Work on the frontend, backend, iOS and Unity SDK.
Built out analytics for internal use.
Work on maintaining and updating the Unity SDK with the latest features.
Maintain documentation for developers on integrating the Unity SDK.

### Fullstack Software Engineer @ AI Foundation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Worked on the reasoning framework for the AI interface. 
Integrated in-house research to drive NLP and classification.
Designed and integrated a distributed message-based architecture.
Built internal tools to support AI training.
Provided server maintenance and support.
Mostly worked in Scala/React.js.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Originate
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Las Vegas, Nevada Area
Completed a personal intern project to create a physical time tracker by using a LightBlue Bean+ board.

Worked on the back-end service written in Haskell for a large coffee chain. My main focus was to improve testing and correct bugs.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Originate
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Las Vegas
Completed a personal intern project with a partner and crated a dating iOS app based on mutual food preferences. The project leveraged Swift, Storyboards, and Firebase. 

Added features to an open-source micro-service framework. 
Exosphere is an extendable tool to manage cloud computing.

### Teaching Fellow @ University of Nevada, Reno
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Reno, Nevada, United States
Assisted CS 135 (Intro to Computer Science) students with programming projects.
Prepared relevant content to teach core principles.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science & Engineering
University of Nevada, Reno
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/helen-medrano-pacheco

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Last updated: 2026-03-22