# Ian P.

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ianp

Driven, experienced, and friendly Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of building performant, reliable, secure, scalable applications and APIs.

What I have to offer:

- Builds with best practices in mind. Writes efficient, maintainable,  and well-tested code. 
- Takes every opportunity to learn and evolve! 
- Not afraid to dive into existing codebases, a firm believer of the "Scout Rule". 
- Calm and effective communicator. 
- A stable and mature team member that welcomes new ideas and discussion. 
- Approaches design and development in a comprehensive approach. Engineering the correct solution with the application in mind.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Sandboxx
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer, Backend @ Goldn GmbH
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Own the architecture and implementation for an ecosystem of scalable, robust, easy-to-maintain, event-driven APIs powered by Go and Typescript accessible through GraphQL. 
- Work closely with Product and Engineering leadership to implement high-value features across all aspects of our software platform. 
- Led efforts to increase developer velocity and code quality across multiple engineering disciplines through test coverage, code quality, containerization, maintainability, and collaboration improvements.

### Senior Software Engineer @ ozmi
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Designed, implemented, and maintained a platform of microservices and serverless functions that facilitated a robust and flexible API utilizing REST best practices.
- Collaborated with Product and Engineering leadership to guide engineering efforts for a team of engineers. 
- Leveraged 3rd party APIs to improve the rate of development and maintainability of applications.

### Software Engineer @ Brit + Co
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
- Designed, built, and maintained a diverse set of APIs using REST best practices written in Python and Go.
- Expanded and standardized developer build environments; replicating legacy and new applications using Docker.
- Improved SEO through the adoption of schema.org structured data. 
- Extended AWS CI/CD pipelines improving security, portability, and development speed.
- Simplified and improved reporting and monitoring within AWS.
- Coordinated and mentored remote engineers on projects of various sizes.
- Utilized NLP to apply ML techniques to categorize published content.

### Engineering Lead @ Parkside Lending
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA
- Lead efforts that involved process automation, reliability, security, and functionality. Utilizing the MVC design pattern, RESTful API standards, and Test Driven Development (TDD). 
- Developed performant domain logic libraries used throughout our application ecosystem.
- Replaced time-consuming, error-prone processes with convenient, automated solutions.
- Managed engineers at multiple experience levels on bi-weekly sprints.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Parkside Lending
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA
- Architected web-based, multi-tier applications contributing to the processing of, in one year, over 3 billion dollars worth of loans.
- Produced an efficient, accessible SQL-based solution for data warehousing and reporting.
- Developed procedures for testing, development, and documentation to strengthen the quality and functionality of business-critical applications.
- Mentored junior engineers in programming methodologies, best practices, and efficient application design.

### Software Engineer @ Parkside Lending
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA
- Improved integrated dynamic queue based tasking system integral in the operational workflow. 
- Designed and Implemented dynamic status based engine that streamlined operational workflow, increased throughput, and lowered the occurrence of errors.
- Designed and developed a dynamic, web-based “Rate Engine” that provided clients with an easy but diverse means of accurately determining the pricing for a mortgage.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
San Francisco State University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pitts-ian
- GitHub: https://github.com/Impitts

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Last updated: 2026-03-23