# Jessica Rahman > Frontend Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jessicarahman Painter, programmer and poet. 5+ years of industry experience shipping full-stack web apps at scale using JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, and modern databases. I lead with empathy and center best practices in accessibility and testing. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Workday Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Pleasanton, California, United States Working with our UI Platform team to deliver next generation Workday products and services. • Developed reusable UI widgets such as rich text editors for Workday’s frontend web application using Typescript, ReactJS, Java and GWT, enabling Workday tenants to manage HCRM tasks efficiently. • Improved best security practices by eliminating high risk code vulnerabilities, as part of Workday’s effort to be FedRAMP compliant. • Developed and maintained unit and automation tests using React Testing Library, WebdriverIO, Cypress, and Playwright, ensuring high code coverage. • Drove AGILE development in our team of 11, leading retrospectives and participating in daily scrum meetings, sprint planning and backlog grooming to maintain project alignment. ### Frontend Software Engineer @ Salesforce Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States Developed personalized web components using JS, HTML and CSS, Node.js and Webpack on AEM with different experiences for prospect and registered users for Salesforce.com and virtual events, including Salesforce's first-ever virtual Dreamforce, and Trailheadx, Connections, World Tours and other small events. ### Front End Software Engineer @ Charles Schwab Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area • Helped build and launch Schwab ETFs and HTI (How to Invest) marketing sites on custom CMS • Designed architecture, maintenance system, and front-end for ETF, HTI, and Investing & Insights pages. This involved prototyping, user testing, building and launching components used across all of Schwab’s forty client (logged-in) and prospect (logged-out) sites. • Reworked code as thousands of pages were migrated from in-house custom CMS site to open-source, SaaS Drupal CMS • Actively promoted best practices for web accessibility (a11y) at Schwab to ensure code compliance with WCAG2 , and worked to develop in-house tools to automate checking Schwab sites and launches for accessibility. • Practiced Agile and Scrum methodology in 2 week sprints with 9 other developers ### Frontend Developer @ Crunchly Co Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Crunchly is a business information platform built using microservices architecture that aggregates demographic and financial data on tech companies. • Tech stack: MongoDB, Mongoose, Express, Node.js, React, Webpack, Docker, AWS • Implemented a modular, flex-based front end using Webpack and React. • Visualized Crunchbase Open API data to simulate 10,000 different tech companies. • Designed microservice architecture that cooperated through RESTful API calls. • Integrated microservices through an Express-based proxy server and deployed to Amazon EC2 instance using Docker & Dockerhub. ### Research Coordinator @ David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Los Angeles Area • Wrote and managed Institutional Review Board (IRB) applications for four different clinical studies at UCLA. • Screened, enrolled, consented and interviewed more than 300 inpatients and outpatients for a cardiovascular genetics registry study. • Proficient at creating and maintaining paper and digital databases using database management software such as File Maker Pro 16. • Directly managed six undergraduate students and helped to grow the lab team from only myself (1) to 18 people that covered both clinical and wet lab research . • Created and managed social media content for the lab and clinic on Twitter and UCLA Health websites in order to promote community outreach. • Wrote and edited content for grant applications. • Created a community garden for the UCLA Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic team. ### EAP Student Ambassador- UC San Diego @ UCEAP Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | La Jolla, CA • Organized and collaborated with campus organizations such as the Study Abroad Center and International House in order to effectively promote University of California Education Abroad Programs (UCEAP) and increase the number of UCSD students that studied abroad. • Managed quarterly, campus-wide marketing campaigns that involved advertisements, social media and on-campus events. • Organized 9 on-campus events over the school year such as speed-dating, pub quizzes and fireside gatherings. • Counseled students from across the UC system in-person and digitally on academic preparations, cultural considerations and cultural exchange for studying abroad. ### Lab Assistant @ UC San Diego, Department of Medicine, Virgil Woods, M.D. Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Conducted deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (DXMS) on proteins acquired from collaborating labs. Operated Thermo Finnigan LCQ electrospray mass spectrometers and analyzed spectrometry data through SEQUEST and specialized DXMS data reduction software. Kept up-to-date through reading and analyzing scientific journal articles. ## Education ### Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Hack Reactor Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 ### Master’s Degree in Public Health Lund University Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Biology/Biological Sciences, General UC San Diego Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jessicarahman --- Source: https://flows.cv/jessicarahman JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jessicarahman/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22