# Jay Rezvani > Software Engineer at Ethos Life Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jayrezvani Software Engineer at Ethos Life. Our goal is to make sure that we expand access for people to get the life insurance that they need to protect their families. https://github.com/jarezvani ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Ethos Life Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States React, Redux, Node, PostgreSQL ### Software Engineer @ b8ta Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, CA React/Redux, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Google Cloud, Kubernetes ### Software Engineer @ Better Inc Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ReactJS, Flask/Python, PostgreSQL, LESS/CSS Developed both client-facing software and internal EHR/CRM dashboard for platform which automates out-of-network healthcare claim filing for patients. Architected new version of user-facing client dashboard using React, LESS/CSS, Python and Postgres, reducing user onboarding time by 60% and providing 12 additional user controls for updating personal data Split front end git repo from main app (Flask) repo, and implemented routine in Travis to push production front end app to CDN, increasing deployment speed by 75%; Webpack build config was modified to utilize code splitting to reduce JS file sizes by anywhere from 20% to 50% Automated email generation previously written manually by admins to gather info on missing claim and provider information, increasing claim checking efficiency by admins by over 50% Managed 2 interns, assigning Asana tickets, mentoring them in Javascript and clean code, gave constructive feedback in code reviews, and helped them build and deploy a growth dashboard in React with Plotly graphs ### Software Engineer @ StudySoup Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Developed front end for Q&A platform in JavaScript, jQuery and Foundation, enabling users to ask questions from experts in real-time, increasing site traffic by over 15% and company revenue by nearly 8%. Created widget using JavaScript, jQuery, CSS3, and remote forms, allowing users to ask questions anywhere on the site, enhancing user interaction with the Q&A product by > 20%. Refactored Ruby on Rails backend to move 50+ MySQL database update tasks to Sidekiq jobs, improving page load times on platform by more than 50% on average. Implemented front end UI for new Textbook Survival Guide project using JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5 and Ruby on Rails, providing students with access to over 5,000 questions from > 40 commonly used college textbooks. Rebuilt 20+ landing pages, removing SQL queries being called from embedded Ruby which were causing hard to locate N+1 queries, optimizing page load times by anywhere from 25% to 150%. ### Software Development Intern @ Fitroom Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley, CA Constructed Chrome Extension to capture screenshots and provide clothing-related shopping results utilizing JavaScript, jQuery and Chrome API, increasing site visitors by over 25% while minimizing drop-off rate by 10%. Upgraded PHP backend to accept Base64-encoded data from Chrome extension and redirect user to shopping results page, decreasing time required to interact with platform by over 30%. ### QA Tester, Admin @ One Medical Group Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Manually tested software in addition to writing automated functional tests front end tests with RSpec and Selenium. Identified and reported 200+ bugs to software development team via PivotalTracker, some of which could have potentially compromised patient data and caused HIPAA violations. ### QA Engineer @ Seyyer Inc Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Processed over 400 hours of videos using VLC and MATLAB to split video into frames and label data points for Eigen-function facial recognition algorithm. Optimized data used by learning algorithm by altering parameters in Perl execution scripts, which reduced overall processing time by 15% and cut amount of required frames to reproduce videos by 50%. ## Education ### Computer Science Foothill College ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Politics University of San Francisco ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jayrezvani - GitHub: https://github.com/jarezvani --- Source: https://flows.cv/jayrezvani JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jayrezvani/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11