# Lindsay Cade > Senior product engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/lindsaycade A full-stack web developer with ten years of programming experience. I am well versed in React, Typescript, EmberJS, Ruby, Rails, FastAPI, and Javascript. Previously, I've worked with biology research teams, honing experimenting and analytical skills, as well as studying illustration, lending me a good aesthetic base and great digital graphics skills. Also, I traveled for a year once and it was awesome. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Benchling Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ ReSync Bio Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Software Consultant @ Unknown Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 ### Senior Software Engineer @ Percy Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area - Led rewrite of core diffing software and improved performance at scale using Python 3, OpenCV, Numpy, Tesseract, Cython. Time per comparison after rewrite was improved by 30% while doing even more analysis than the old version. Rewrite also allowed easy additions to improve analysis including vertical-shift detection, antialiasing detection, and OCR-based adjustments. - Led development of application UI in EmberJS. Technical lead on all frontend projects, some of note are: Support for multiple browsers, complete redesign of builds page including: routing, performance improvements to allow up to 9k snapshots, multiple viewing modes, customer and organization migration wizard, commenting system. Added and maintained comprehensive test coverage to the frontend app. - Contributed to Ruby on Rails API development of key features including new endpoints for frontend, billing tabulation, subscription management, serialization optimization, customer and organization migration wizard. - Managed 3 reports and responsible for their mentorship, growth, performance evaluation, and job satisfaction. ### Software Engineer @ Percy Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ AltSchool Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco ・ Contributes to a diverse set of the large AltSchool student and teacher facing products. Technical lead on several projects: student facing units, tree-based taxonomy navigator, card state refactor, rubric-based taxonomy navigator, card comment notifications. Builds reusable components to Slate, our in-house reusable component library. ・ Led standardization of product analytics processes by writing extensive documentation, outlining action and payload data naming conventions, and proposing a standard process to make collaboration between PM and eng smoother. ・ Built release dashboard to solve scheduling confusion over heavy-weight release process. Used GitHub API to display whether newest release is cut, latest merges between master and production, and latest release manager. ・ Writes unit, integration, and acceptance tests for Ember application using Mocha, Chai, Sinon, FactoryGuy, and Ember Mirage. ### Software Engineer and TA @ Hackbright Academy Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Led UX/UI design and implementation for program’s online learning application built in Ruby on Rails and React. Taught full-stack web development concepts — Python, SQL, HTML, CSS, Flask, JavaScript. Designed and ran after-class workshops for students needing extra help. Instrumental in improving the course by standardizing curriculum development processes and solution sharing among instructors — from ad-hoc email/GoogleDocs to a GitHub based workflow. ### Bioinformatics Specialist @ UCSF Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA Provided bioinformatics support for cancer researchers. Analyzed sequenced exomes and RNASeq data using established pipeline built with Ruby and various standard published genomics tools. Worked with, edited, and created new components of lab's custom distributed data analysis pipeline in Ruby. Built automation around munging and analysis of biological data from various data sources in R. Supported other staff with programming guidance. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Academia.edu Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Altered Ruby on Rails app notification email pipeline to adjust for Google referal headers no longer containing search queries. Added several widgets to node.js internal analytics dashboard querying PostgresSQL and performing map reduce function on MongoDB collections. Added display option to analytics page to display city of referrals using Coffeescript and SCSS/CSS. ### Student @ Hackbright Academy Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Learned and used Python, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flask, and git. ### Traveler @ World Traveler Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | India, Southeast Asia, Europe, Hong Kong, South Korea Embarked on a year of travel. It was awesome. Planning, problem solving, patience, boundary expansion, open-mindedness, and independence abounded. ### Laboratory Technician and Lab Manager @ Massachusetts General Hospital Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Boston, MA Created zebrafish knockout lines using novel zinc-finger nuclease technology. Methods included PCR, DNA extraction, E.coli culture, gel purification, RNA synthesis, colony crack screening, microinjection, subcloning, and zebrafish husbandry. Promoted to lab manager and ordered supplies, compiled lab stock inventories, and ensured safety compliance. ### Research associate @ NanoPower Research Laboratory Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 Develop and characterize new methods and materials for higher efficiency organic polymer solar cells. Primary methods include profilometerey, atomic force microscopy, spectrophotometry, and solar simulation. ### Undergraduate Research Scholar @ Rochester Institute of Technology Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 Investigating a new application of bio-printing. The end-goal is to print biological components to investigate biochemical processes, especially enzyme kinetics, in small-volume environments. ### Research Assistant @ Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 Identified and characterized proteins in a nitric oxide signal transduction pathway in diabetic mouse retinas. Primary methods included Western blots, PCR, RT-PCR, confocal microscopy, and immunocytochemistry. Others included subcloning, bacterial transformation, plasmid purification, and cell culture. Funded by SURF program at Boston University. ## Education ### BS + BFA in Biochemistry, Illustration Rochester Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lindsaycade - GitHub: https://github.com/cadeParade - Portfolio: http://www.lindsaycade.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/lindsaycade JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lindsaycade/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11