# Lan N. > Senior Staff Software Engineer at Ripple Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/lann Versatile software engineer with deep full-stack experience, passionate about crafting products that balance great user experience with strong technical foundations. I enjoy simplifying complex problems into simple, intuitive solutions and collaborating across teams to make ideas real. Speed matters, so I focus on delivering impact to market quickly, without cutting corners on quality or scalability. ## Work Experience ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Ripple Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Drive new product initiatives by cross functional collaboration with Product, Design, Market, Finance, and Engineering teams, to validate product market fit with rapid prototypes. Enhance team productivity by researching and integrating vendor and AI tooling for low code and no code solutions for speeding up business and developer processes. Mentor engineers on different products and software design and implementation strategies and practices. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Ripple Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Launched OTC trade booking experience that immediately processed billions in trading volume within quarters, with highly automated UX work flows for traders, and integrations with risk management and reconciliation systems. Launched real time pricing system from different markets for crypto trading pairs through web sockets, and consulted partner teams on scaling the product from MVP to power other company products. Partnered with trading desk and back office teams on data schemas and pipelines for accurate book keeping and settlement processes. Designed and implemented major parts of an enterprise crypto trading system (Liquidity Hub), with event driven architecture and multiple micro services. Focused on expanding product offers by integrating different order strategies, with different exchanges and market aggregators. Mentored juniors and interns on different technologies (React, gRPC, Kinesis, database design and migration, testing, developer tools like Bazel, CI/CD, etc.), and software engineering best practices and process. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Ripple Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States Built full stack Payment experience for enterprise customers, with a strong front end focus. Increased code quality and developer experience by introducing new robust end to end testing framework, and training teams on the technologies and integrating testing into the development best practices. Sped up team feature delivery across different projects, by adding auto deployment CI/CD pipelines, with environment gating by test suites. Reduced customer on-boarding bottlenecks by new streamlined workflows with unified progress tracking system, powered by new micro services (Java) and both external and admin UXs (React). Enhanced customer granular controls on user permissions for accessing different product features, by migrating from simple user and products permissions schema to a more robust design that supports external and internal systems, with complex changes across UI, back end, database and authentication layers without any regression, and minimal downtime. Centralized product deployment visibility and cost monitoring by building Infra admin dashboards for deployment statuses and cost usages. ### Senior Software Engineer, Web @ Little Passports Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area • Delivered new checkout project with new features, better UX and performance, that resulted in instant conversion rate improvement • Built custom UI component library to be used in various React apps • Integrated Braintree into current payment services • Built new Magento APIs consumed by different applications and integrated with new micro services • Improved code quality by introducing unit/integration tests into team work flow and Jenkins pipelines • Established best practices for coding standards and processes ### Software Engineer, Web @ Blurb Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Accelerated the launch of new user dashboard pages built with React, Redux, Storybook, and Jest • Launched new payment service smoothly as a contributor of a cross-functional team, within tight deadline • Reduced Operations and Customer Service work load by eliminating shipping rate issue in the checkout flow • Reformed checkout flow with boost in both performance and user experience, by enforcing front end validation and enhancing user interactivity • Improved popular page’s speed by optimizing assets and reducing queries • Increased website SEO score by collaborating with Product and Marketing teams to implement SEO best practices • Worked closely with Product owners and designers to build reusable UI components in various technologies (React, Ruby on Rails, Jekyll, Backbone) • Maintained green Jenkins pipelines by troubleshooting and fixing integration tests • Ensured code quality with unit and end to end tests (Jest, Jasmine, Testcafe, CasperJS, Rspec, Cucumber, Capybara, Selenium) ### Software Engineer @ Henge Docks LLC Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Henge Docks was acquired by Brydge. Built and shipped new e-commerce website under extremely tight deadline and limited resource, resulting in great improvement in UI, UX, website performance, and brand image. Achievements include: • Worked closely with Team Lead to build completely customized Shopify theme from scratch in Liquid and Javascript, enabling unique business requirements previously limited by the Shopify platform • Improved accuracy of financial reporting from Shopify to Xero, and inventory management, by redesigning and rebuilding automating tools in Angular/NodeJS, and Ruby on Rails • Drove Redesign project to completion within short time frame, by working with Marketing and Design to achieve smooth UX flow and mobile responsive layouts • Designed and implemented new AWS architecture to allow business’ gradual departure from Shopify, with various applications in different tech stacks, across different cloud services (EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, CloudFront, DynamoDB, RDS) ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Illustration Academy of Art University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lannify --- Source: https://flows.cv/lann JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lann/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31