# Jennifer W. > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jenniferw1 ## Work Experience ### Staff Engineer @ Balbix Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | New York City Metropolitan Area · Led improvement of the front-end stack by implementing Typescript and Tailwind to optimize and accelerate development, as well as introduced performance enhancing features such as infinite scroll with virtualization to increase page loading speed · Proved ability to work well under time pressure and adapt to immediate business needs, ensuring that customer POCs ran smoothly and successfully ### Senior Software Engineer @ Balbix Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York City Metropolitan Area · Expanded my responsibilities to include full-stack work, building streamlined APIs that interfaced with data via Postgres and ElasticSearch queries to reduce back-end development bottleneck · Optimized the product’s user experience and performance by creating user-friendly UI components for high-impact features; this led to increased scalability and allowed for a 5x increase in customer purchases · Collaborated efficiently with multiple teams across countries and timezones to ensure smooth hand-off of tasks and exceed deadline expectations ### Software Engineer @ Balbix Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California · Selected as part of a specialized team that completely refactored the product’s codebase with a focus on improving visual design and optimizing CI/CD procedures; this led to a significant decrease in deployment time and increased deployment frequency from a few times per month to multiple times per day · Implemented multiple frameworks and libraries such as GraphQL, which reduced API response times and streamlined data fetching; as well as Material UI, which allowed for simpler creation of responsive, reusable components · Took ownership of the documentation and rebuilding of important legacy features to guarantee that critical knowledge was passed down correctly ### UI Engineering Intern @ Balbix Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Jose, California · Built a new internal tool from inception to MVP while collaborating closely with the UX designer and engineering teams · Familiarized myself with the product’s front-end software stack and contributed heavily to debugging and implementing fixes for legacy code · Thrived in the fast-paced start-up environment and followed Agile procedures ### Web Developer @ BellaNove Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area · BellaNové is a subscription-based, maternity-wear rental company · Improved and maintained bellanove.com with a focus on implementing a more streamlined and user-friendly experience site-wide by making design changes via CSS and plugins. I also simplified the user’s flow through the site from signing up to logging in to placing an order · Gained proficiency using the Wordpress content management system; including creating a child theme, editing custom theme PHP templates, and integrating e-commerce plugins ### Software Development Intern @ Tutorfly Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Los Angeles Area · Tutorfly is a peer-to-peer tutoring platform · Collaborated with the software development team to maintain and improve tutorfly.org using React.js, Meteor, and MongoDB · Implemented new designs for the user’s dashboard/account page, including creating and integrating new React components, which resulted in an easier, more intuitive experience for the user · Contributed to detailed wireframe designs for a completely new overall front-end design which will further improve the user experience of the website ### Online Marketing Team Member @ Power Integrations Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area · Power Integrations is a supplier of electronic components for use in power-conversion systems · Responsible for creating the design for a new product selection guide for power.com which included collaboration with key members of the marketing team and designing detailed wireframes · Contributed important UX updates to power.com that resulted in a more aesthetically pleasing appearance and a seamless experience; visit my GitHub page for before and after screenshots: https://github.com/jenn-williams/PowerIntegrationsInternship · Made extensive use of Drupal content management system and became proficient with editing custom theme PHP templates ### Online Department @ Daily Bruin Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area · Worked in a team setting to create web projects for the newspaper · Worked on maintenance of dailybruin.com ### Online Marketing Team Member @ Power Integrations Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area · Conducted UX testing of app for Power Integrations’ salesforce · Responsible for editing power.com and conducting important data entry/clean up · Gained familiarity with the Drupal CMS, as well as the web server environments Acquia Dev Desktop and MAMP, and version control using GitHub · Liaised with key external development consultant to learn how Drupal websites function and discuss goals for improving power.com ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Cognitive Science UCLA Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ### Minor in Digital Humanities UCLA ### Minor in Geospatial Information Systems & Technologies UCLA ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jennifer-w-08b630113 --- Source: https://flows.cv/jenniferw1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jenniferw1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22