# Jesse Stern

> Software Engineer at Linktree

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

Developer with background in music and education passionate about solving problems and working in small groups to build tools to empower and enrich communities and lives.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Linktree
Jan 2021 – Present | Remote
- Built an affiliate program where users can add custom affiliate tokens that will get appended to relevant links on their profile, otherwise the default Linktree token will get appended. This feature has been used to add ≈ 15k custom affiliate tokens for users, as well as generating ≈ 200k USD payout to Linktree from links clicked with our own affiliate tokens.
· Built link applications for different verticals, including Music, Podcast, Book, and Mobile Apps. Music link has been used to create new links over a million times since its creation in August 2021.
· Led a team of three to deliver a larger, six-month link app project that involved setting up infrastructure in AWS, including cron job, queue service, and lambdas.
· Built out analytics pipelines to ingest data coming from events using Snowflake, Data Fabric technology, SQL and RDS.
· Built custom dashboards in Datadog to analyze metrics from new projects we’ve created.

### Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Jose
- Helped build a self service tool for businesses to set up PayPal Credit messaging on their website
- Helped build a tool for larger businesses that have an account manager to setup their business with an installment plan through PayPal Credit
- Helped build out the German version of PayPal Credit. Involved building React components, and interacting with Node and Java APIs, as well as writing unit and functional tests.


## Education
### UC Berkeley Coding Boot Camp in Web Development
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017

### Music Performance in Jazz Studies
Portland State University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jesse-stern

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Last updated: 2026-03-20