# Jeffrey Hanford > Software Engineer at Waymo Location: Los Gatos, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jeffreyhanford Full stack web developer, Software Engineer at Waymo ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Waymo Jan 2026 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States Software and tools ### Software Engineer @ Waymo Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States Full stack software engineer responsible for development and maintenance of autonomous vehicle simulation reporting tools ### Software Engineer @ Skydio Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Redwood City, California, United States Software developer on the cloud team responsible for development and upkeep of Skydio Cloud services providing remote operations and fleet management. Worked with React, Redux, and Relay GraphQL to build out front end, and Python SQLAlchemy, Graphene, and Postgres to write API layers. Built Skydio Remote Ops product using React, WebRTC connection layer, Redux state management, and Three.JS AR feedback rendering to allow customers to pilot their Skydio Drone from any computer remotely using mouse and keyboard. Developed several customer facing vehicle fleet management pages. Re-wrote legacy data fetch requests with more developer friendly GraphQL queries and subscriptions to handle live changes. Optimized queries to cache live vehicle status where appropriate and reduce query time. Developed the media gallery, which displays all Skydio drone uploaded images and videos to cloud customers. Built ability to annotate media using OpenLayers, and wrote out the annotation data model in SQLAlchemy and Graphene. Wrote the Mission Planner skill in Python, interfacing with drone APIs to enable users to fly and plan repeatable waypoint missions with photo and video recording actions from the browser. Wrote the React front end code to display the user interface primitives generated and sent by the vehicle to the webapp. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Granular Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Frontend engineer on the frontend platform team responsible for developing the Granular Business product. Working closely with product managers, designers, QA, and feature teams to ensure a functional product is delivered. Writing React and Redux components, modules, services, and pages to serve an international customer base and our own customer success managers. Maintaining and gradually replacing legacy AngularJS code. Reviewing all merge requests for Granular Business's frontend code base for cleanliness, code principles, and potential bugs. Developing and maintaining build automation systems for our frontend including Webpack 4 build optimization and Jenkins automatic deploy pipelines. Implementing GraphQL in our tech stack and writing standards for usage within our React and Redux code. Working with feature teams to facilitate its use for consolidating legacy APIs calls and building new ones. ### Software Engineer @ Granular Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Primary frontend engineer responsible for developing the “Nutrient Plans Page” Developed the Redux modules responsible for controlling the page’s data and orchestrating and caching API calls Wrote React components for the page using the recently released React Hook-based libraries to facilitate shared logic Worked with the frontend platform team to set the standard for writing new pages on our frontend microservice ### Software Engineering Intern @ Percolata Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Evaluated and improved an Amazon MTurk system for use with machine learning data validation. Fixed up Ansible based deploy pipeline to re-enable development and deployment on a previously abandoned project. Light work with AngularJS frontend code and porting a Java based webserver to Groovy. ### System on Chip Design Methodology Engineering Summer Intern @ GLOBALFOUNDRIES Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Coded a Graphical Hierarchy Analysis Tool in the TCL scripting language with C based design extraction code ### SoC Physical Design Engineering Summer Intern @ Intel Corporation Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Fort Collins, Colorado Area Performed design and debug on Intel 14nm CedarFork partition ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science University of Southern California Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jeffhanford - GitHub: https://github.com/Tioga060 --- Source: https://flows.cv/jeffreyhanford JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jeffreyhanford/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29