# Kris Ni

> Senior Software Engineer at First American

Location: San Diego, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/krisni

Boston University B.S Computer Engineering. Love both Development and Design.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ First American
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Demandwell
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
- Built out customer facing products from the existing MVP on innovative SEO marketing strategies with
React on the front end and Ruby/Rails on the backend.
- Work with designers on delivering pixel perfect product pages.
- Set up Front end Unit Test framework with Jest
- Design and build internal tools to help in house consultants to effectively increase their productivity by
more than 200%.
- Help mentor junior engineers on how to grow in their roles

### Lead Software Engineer @ Toybox
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
- Lead Engineer in a 3 person remote YC startup.
- Build products from the ground up in a fast paced company. Build and validate new features that are
better suited for customers. Constantly incorporate new technologies to improve the performance and
user experience of the product.
- Create prototypes to test the market needs before incorporating into the final products.

### Senior Software Engineer @ clypd, inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | Somerville, Massachusetts
- Initially implement web pages using ruby/rails, and when company decide to use React/Redux instead,
convert existing web pages from ruby/rails to React/Redux and implement new web pages in
React/Redux
- Design & Implement RESTful APIs to provide data for the UI
- Design & build tables in PostgreSQL that fits the needs of the APIs
- Feature lead projects that span work in both front end and back end. Work with products to gather
requirements, and design and flush out stories that complete the projects. Organize the design meetings to go over the projects with the rest of the engineering team.
- UI guild leadership. Organize and run UI guild meetings every week where we discuss technical debt and engineering driven projects for the upcoming sprints. Help team members prepare tasks from the guild meeting and advocate guild projects to product. Help UI team to improve existing technologies in the platform and bring potential 3rd party tools into the platform
- Mentor students in our co-op program. Help them get familiar with the company and the technologies
and answer questions that they have during their co-op experience.
- Being a part of UX guild that drives to improve UX in our apps as well as starting to take on UX projects

### Engineering Intern @ Xamarin
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Greater Boston Area
o Currently converting mono-project website to host on Github using Jekyll from mediawiki

### Software Developer Intern @ InterSystems
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA
o	Worked with company’s new mobile technology. 
o	Designed and built a mobile app for a production monitor with JavaScript for frontend.

### Web Developer Intern @ CHT4 Corporation
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
o	Designed and built websites for the company. 
o	Mainly focused on designing websites using HTML/CSS.
o	Completed database management for login and registration functions using PHP and MySQL.

### Engineering Intern @ Huawei Technologies
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
o	Wrote partial code in C++ on the current data processing chip.
o	Worked under Agile Scrum software development.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Engineering
Boston University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kris-ni-83a03242

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Last updated: 2026-03-22