# Ky Statham

> Senior Software Engineer | Ex-Pinterest | JavaScript, React, Python

Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kystatham

Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience in developing and scaling high-traffic, advertiser-facing products. At Pinterest, led teams of 5–7 engineers on complex Ads Manager initiatives, driving end-to-end development from backend schema changes to frontend workflows. Demonstrated expertise in full-stack development with a focus on frontend architecture, A/B testing, and data-informed decision-making.  

Contributed to impactful projects such as Promotions, Multiple Targeting Templates, and a global account switcher, ensuring scalable and efficient solutions. Known for fostering collaboration, mentoring junior engineers, and improving team processes to deliver high-quality outcomes. Open to roles where hands-on technical leadership and user-centered product development are paramount.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Pinterest
Jan 2021 – Jan 2026
- Acted as technical lead for a core Ads Manager product area, guiding 5–7 engineers through design, implementation, and delivery of complex, high-traffic features.
- Led architectural decision-making across teams by reviewing technical designs, facilitating alignment, and introducing solutions that balanced scalability, maintainability, and delivery velocity.
- Delivered multiple end-to-end advertiser-facing initiatives spanning React-based frontend architecture, backend API design (Python/Java), relational data modeling (MySQL), and integration testing (Cypress).
- Drove improvements to Ads Manager usability by modernizing frontend patterns, reducing UI complexity, and establishing shared documentation and standards adopted across teams.
- Designed scalable data models and APIs for evolving product requirements, including introducing many-to-many relational patterns in high-traffic systems.
- Built and evolved shared web platform functionality used across multiple deployed applications and data sources.
- Led experimentation efforts, including A/B test design, execution, and analysis to inform product decisions.
- Mentored engineers through onboarding, design and code reviews, and formal mentorship programs; contributed to hiring and team-level technical standards.
- Improved team operations by supporting on-call process design, roadmap planning, and large-scale backend refactors.

### Software Engineer @ Pinterest
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Built and shipped advertiser-facing features focused on automation, insights, and workflow efficiency.
- Owned internal tools end-to-end, serving as the primary engineer for design, implementation, rollout, and iteration.
- Worked extensively on frontend architecture, developing complex UI flows and improving reliability and maintainability of React-based systems.
- Designed and ran product experiments, partnering with product and design to make data-informed decisions.
- Served as a go-to engineer for complex frontend work and billing-related systems.
- Mentored apprentices and junior engineers through formal mentorship programs and supported design reviews across teams.

### Software Engineer @ Domino Data Lab
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Led the redesign and implementation of shared frontend navigation systems using TypeScript, deployed across cloud and on-prem environments.
- Built reusable UI components and product features used by a broad customer base.
- Collaborated closely with product managers and designers to translate requirements into scalable frontend solutions.

### Software Engineer @ PlanGrid
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Designed and built APIs for third-party integrations, supporting enterprise workflows.
- Implemented a zero-downtime payments data migration from MongoDB to Postgres using dual writes, data validation, and feature flags.
- Built enterprise user management features and collaborated cross-functionally to deliver reliable, customer-facing releases.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Trill Inc
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
- Developed a user profile interface.
- Created an internal dashboard for data analysis.
- Maintained a database portal and served as the point of contact for issues faced by data entry interns.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ky-statham-877b7685

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Last updated: 2026-03-29