# Jack Agosthazi > Principal Software Engineer - using AI to make lives better for users and developers Location: Pacifica, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jackagosthazi Front-end architect with over 10 years of Silicon Valley experience. Passionate about building products that make people's lives easier. Comfortable in garage startups and in multinational corporations alike. Dedicated team-player, mentoring new developers to create a balanced work environment. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Tulip Interfaces Jan 2024 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States Front-end leaning engineer brought on board to own our component library and to drive front-end architecture. Leading voice in ramping up AI tool usage in the engineering org and standardizing processes around it to increase developer productivity. Working on AI model integrations to make our platform even more powerful by connecting it to AI agents. ### Senior Salesforce Developer @ Reprocare Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Single senior developer to build an electronic health records (ehr) app for a client using the Salesforce platform and Lightning Web Components. - Working directly with the end users to gather requirements - Technical designing Salesforce application - Development and deployment to client org ### Principal Software Engineer @ Workday Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | San Mateo, California, United States Worked on a 1.5 year migration project, from start to production, taking our analytics flagship product from Knockout.js to React. Owned several big features during the course of that work, as part of cross-functional agile teams. After the migration, we continue to build new features to our application based on customer demand. ### Homepage Developer @ Walmart eCommerce Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area 1 of 6 engineers responsible for maintaining Walmart.com’s homepage. • Working directly with Walmart’s homepage veterans, learning all the best practices around React and the WalmartLabs ecosystem both in coding and in development processes. • Key developer in the 2018 site redesign, working directly with the site architects making the biggest rewrite of the last 10 years happen: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/10/wal-mart-shares-surge-higher-as-retailer-plans-website-redesign.html • Delivering React components for the Electrode ecosystem that other Walmart teams will reuse • Delivered a whole new Electrode app for Corporate Gift Cards in just under 3 months. This page is responsible for 20% of Walmart’s entire revenue. • Fixed accessibility production bugs as part of our ADA compliance effort. ### Front-end Architect @ Walmart eCommerce Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Single responsible owner of creating a new customer-facing application for hosting sponsored content on walmart.com. Every recipe and article on walmart.com is now hosted from the app I created. • After being brought on board, delivered the project on time when every stakeholder expected it to fail • Worked directly with product owners and designers • Example article: https://www.walmart.com/ideas/209851 ### Salesforce Developer @ AppBuddy Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Campbell, CA Single responsible developer for moving the flagship product GridBuddy over to a mobile platform. Successfully delivered GridBuddy mobile prototype integrated with Salesforce1 for Dreamforce '13. The mobile optimizations were first developed as a package, and later I successfully moved them over into the core product. Worked on Sales Engineering tasks to support the salespeople using Visualforce and Apex and static resources. • With my optimizations, GridBuddy is now supported on iPad • About 8,000 Salesforce users of our customers are using the sales engineering solutions that I've built on a day-to-day basis. These are companies like Adobe, NBC Universal, NetApp and a large national healthcare organization • Worked with the business owner and CTO on requirements and specifications • Researched cutting edge technologies to help the architectural decisions • Worked in an iterative way accommodating the changing requirements • Worked with designers to create the best user experience • Worked with sales team to custom tailor solutions to our clients Main skills used: Visualforce, Apex, jQuery mobile, AngularJS, SOQL, Salesforce API, static resources, Salesforce packaging, Agile development, JS, CSS, Force.com IDE ### Front-end Principal Engineer @ Pinterest Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Brought onboard to help the team meet an aggressive deadline with a new tool at Pinterest. It's an internal tool that gives visibility into Pinterest's engineering infrastructure. We delivered the product on time, and won an award for it so on the company half-year closing event. • After completing it, I'm the single responsible developer maintaining the product. • Worked with other teams directly to get their use cases and build the product to their needs. • Proposed new architecture to main stakeholders to improve usability. Using ReactJS, D3.js, webpack and Python ### Front-end Architect @ Walmart eCommerce Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale, CA AngularJS expert hired to build an internal tool for the Walmart online store. • Built out an internal tool from scratch to help other teams’ work within Walmart with an aggressive timeline. • Drove the conversation with the product owner to define the architecture and functionality of the app. • When the product launch was in danger they hired me to build the app with very limited time, and I delivered it ahead of schedule. • Designed the user experience of the app without a dedicated designer resource on the team. Main skills used: Angular.js, Bootstrap, Gulp ### Front-end engineer @ Niara, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Sunnyvale, CA AngularJS expert hired to build out the front-end of the company’s new web app. • Built dynamic dashboard using AngularJS and D3.js that updates based on the user selecting parts of a chart. Both the management team and prospects that saw it in demos were really impressed with the look and feel and the speed of delivery • Created component library for charts that we can reuse throughout the whole app • I've become the management team's go-to person when we need to deliver new features quick for a demo the next day ### Front-end developer @ CA Technologies Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Santa Clara, CA Key person in prototyping and laying down the foundation of the new enterprise mobile app management system. Responsible for creating enterprise application logic using Angular.js and other cutting edge technologies. • CA Technologies’ new Mobile App management tool that we built the front-end for in a group of 3 is expected to make the company $100M in the first year. The app uses my chart widgets to display data on almost every page. • Built out application controller structure at the beginning of the project that later became the skeleton of the whole app • Drove the discussion on app architecture and technologies to use • Advised management on Agile methodologies that they implemented right away • Picked up CoffeeScript and HAML on the go within a few days Main skills used: Angular.js, CoffeeScript, HAML, SASS, Grunt, Bower ### Front-end developer @ HP Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale, CA Single responsible person for prototyping pronq.com, the new HP online software store. Worked on building the site using AngularJS, Drupal and Symfony. • I hand coded the first version of pronq.com, the online store for HP software. Rapid iterations with my prototypes helped them determine the direction they want to go with the product in the early days. The VP and senior VP of the Online Business group in HP used my prototypes during their brainstorming sessions that I’d adjust based on their feedback. • I worked closely with the product management team to find good UX solutions to their problems. • Picked up new technologies like AngularJS, PHP and Drupal on the go • Responsible for look and feel of site: used latest animations and design best practices • Responsible for page performance and asset minification • Worked in a cross-functional scrum team • Resolved scalability issues with design team to make the site suitable for up to 400 software products Main skills used: JavaScript, Angular.js, Drupal, Symfony, Bootstrap, PHP, Grunt, SASS, Karma ### Front-end Engineer @ Interconnection Marketing Inc. Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Developed front end for Shipping, Supplier Quotes and Supplier Orders Module for Interconnection Marketing’s business automation system. Developed calculation and data manipulation features and API integration with UPS and FedEx using modular JavaScript techniques and jQuery. Application successfully increases productivity, performance and sales for multi-million dollar distributor company. • The company’s productivity increased by 300% and sales increased by 35% • The automated pricing calculation I built saved the sales people 1.5 hours a day/person and improved pricing consistency that lead to greater customer satisfaction • Automated invoice generation we’ve built saved 1 hour a day/person for the salespeople and shipping dept. personnel • Integrated shipping we’ve built saved the shipping department 2 hours a day/person • Integrated shipping module with UPS and FedEx soap API so that we were able to print shipping labels from our system. This was a couple weeks long struggle to read through the documentation, talk to their support, and finally get the right configuration for the 100 line XML file we sent • Integrated with Google calendars so that the system would create follow-up reminders for the users when they placed an order • Resolved mission-critical support requirements for company. E.g. when the server went down, or the SQL update statement broke during a deploy • Prototyped screens for discussions with business owner • Implemented front end of application using JavaScript, jQuery and AJAX • Hand coded HTML, CSS and JavaScript on front end using the best practices and standards • Provided strategic guidance for technical direction to Project and Product Managers • Created information architecture according to documented requirements using Ajax, jQuery and JSON • Maintained DB backups using cronjobs • Created complex SQL queries for custom views based on business requirements Skills: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Query, Ajax, Java, JDBC, Eclipse, mySQL ## Education ### Certificate in Web Development Golden State Institute of Technology Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jack-agosthazi --- Source: https://flows.cv/jackagosthazi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jackagosthazi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22