# Lindsay 🧿 Hertz

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lindsayhertz

Experienced and empathetic software engineer focused on building delightful user experiences in the browser. Expert in Javascript/Typescript, single-page applications, React and Angular, browser performance, data visualization, and complex state management.

## Work Experience
### Sr. Software Engineer @ Runway
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer | Tech Lead @ Mode
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
- Develop and maintain a data analytics platform built with TypeScript, Angular, RxJS, and Sass, focusing on writing scalable, maintainable, and testable code
- Test business logic and functionality using Jest, Cypress, and GhostInspector
- Create technical plans and documentation for future work
- Drive feature development from idea to launch, working closely with product, design, back end services, infrastructure, marketing, and customer support teams
- Interview, onboard, and mentor new engineers
- Planned and executed component and state management migration from AngularJS to modern Angular

Key Projects:
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Calculated Fields
    - Built in-app code editor for defining calculations
    - Extended proprietary expression language and compiler for generating SQL
Reusable Datasets
    - Directed a critical change to the app’s data model, enabling a new paradigm of use cases
    - Developed API endpoints to leverage these new objects and relationships
    - Led a refactor of front end surface area
Application Performance Improvements
    - Instrumented application performance using Honeycomb
    - Developed and tested hypotheses for bottlenecks and inefficiencies
    - Implemented a virtual loading experience to speed up page load
    - Proposed a series of product changes that would yield performance gains

### Software Engineer @ Mode
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Web Application Engineer @ Yerdle
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Rebuilding the web experience at Yerdle from the ground up using JavaScript, React and Redux

### Front End Engineer - Business Insights @ Desk.com
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
- Led the project to create a realtime, customizable analytics dashboard, using D3.js and AngularJS
- Developed framework for building reusable component charts in D3.js
- Implemented and iterated on detailed UX designs to achieve a high level of clarity and ease of use

### Front End Engineer @ Desk.com
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
- Developed a new "Next Generation" version of the Desk.com flagship customer support platform, using AngularJS
- Worked closely with the Back End team to create internal and public APIs

### Student of JavaScript and Humility @ Hack Reactor
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco

### Cheesemonger @ Mission Cheese LLC
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco

### SAT Tutor @ Eureka Review
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | SF Bay Area

### Relief Shelter Worker / Assistant Children's Coordinator @ Shelter Network
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | First Step for Families -- San Mateo, CA

### Tutor – Deductive Logic @ Oberlin College
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Oberlin, OH


## Education
### BA in Philosophy, Politics
Oberlin College

### Castilleja School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lindsayhertz

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Source: https://flows.cv/lindsayhertz
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lindsayhertz/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-01