# Luis Torres

> CSS is Awesome | I Learn Every Day | Frontend Engineer making things invisible @ Superhuman (Formerly Grammarly)

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/luistorres

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I'm like Michelangelo and Da Vinci. Like the sculptor, remove the unnecessary. Like the painter, add the necessary.

My biggest strength is my biggest weakness - passion and bias for action.

Lets connect, dream big and Get Shit Done!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Superhuman
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Growth Acquisition Team

### Software Engineer @ Grammarly
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Growth Acquisition Team

### Staff Software Engineer - Infra UX @ LinkedIn
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2017 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Founding member of the Infra UX team at LinkedIn in 2018 - still going STRONG!!!

Lead implementation of the new version of the UI component library for web

Infra a11y expert

Developed infra level solutions for High Contrast mode a11y bugs

Worked on the LinkedIn re-branding/new theme

Led Dark Mode work for LinkedIn on web by championing and providing guidance to all consumer facing products to successful implementation

Championed mindset change from thinking in colors to thinking in semantics 

Led the web team in charge for the infra/UI for LinkedIn Coach (our AI companion)

Working on a new UI framework for LinkedIn

Leading the work on Figma tooling for the next generation of LinkedIn applications

Providing and thinking of cross platform solutions to building UI

Successfully mentored interns through the summer that lead to full time offer from LinkedIn

Successfully and actively mentor apprentices and peers

My team continues to Get Shit Done! despite the complexity of our enterprise level application

### Web Development Engineer - Alexa Skills Store @ Amazon
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Irvine
Contributed to the success and growth of Alexa.

Worked in the Alexa Skills Store team trying to provide a great experience and discoverability of skills to users

Created reusable components to facilitate the use, creation and composition of new components by other team members. As a result, development time was decreased by 20%

Structured our CSS for readability, maintainability, and scalability using a component base approach in addition to BEM. It reduced development time when dealing with CSS within our team

### Web Development Engineer - Appstore at Amazon @ Amazon
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Irvine, California
Making Appstore Retail Web a better place.

Advocated CSS best practices via a presentation on Specificity at an internal Web Development Conference

Designed and implemented a consistent look and feel for pages and widgets owned by Appstore on Retail Web

### Application Developer/ UI – UX Developer @ Discover Home Loans
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Irvine, California
Worked with Pricing team on a mission to automate a user locking, unlocking, re-locking, re-working, adjusting and extending a loan and hence have a comparative advantage over competitors

Created modern user interfaces allowing a better user experience with the help of Blend and Snoop

Created a uniform set of styles, templates and custom controls for the SOL(in-house loan origination) application

### Teaching Associate/Part-time Instructor @ California State University, Fullerton
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Fullerton, California
The aim of education is not knowledge, but action

Enforced the above ideology throughout the semester by assigning a great amount of programming assignments

Attempted to enforced an environment similar to what a computer science student might face on their job

The focus of the class was Data Structures, their implementations and individual benefits across problems 

Strong emphasis on Object Oriented Programming

### Student Intern, Developer - Innovation Incubator @ Verizon
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Richardson, Texas
Designed an in-house Verizon Android theme for Android Applications

Redesigned the front-end, back-end and added new features to an in-house Verizon team collaboration web application using modern and popular technologies

### Student Intern - Software Platform R&D Program Management @ Invensys Operations Management
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Lake Forest, California
Created a web application that used Team Foundation Server API to query work items

Planning of PSIs and Sprint was expedited by half of a day by allowing users to skip many tedious details when planning using TFS and as a result helped to visualize the work distributed in each PSI and Sprint

### Student Researcher @ California State University, Fullerton
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011
Studied the Mean and Median sequence
Looked for patterns to simplify the problem and arrive to conclusion
The goals was to describe any convergence property for the M&m sequence
Studied the Symmetric Inverse Monoid
Searching for patterns in order to identify the elements that would possess a kth root for any given positive integer k

Oral Presentations
California State University Fullerton, Senior Honors Presentation, May 2011
California State University Student Research Competition, CSU Fresno, May 2011
California State University Student Research Competition, CSU Fullerton, 3rd place, March 2011
California State University Research Colloquium, April 2010
“Partial Ordered Injections Semigroup”, Dr. Scott Annin’s research meeting, April 2010
Pacific Coast Undergraduate Math Conference, Pepperdine University, March 2010

Poster Presentations
California State University Fullerton Natural Sciences and Mathematics-Inter-Club Council Symposium, April 2010
Mathematical Association of America Section Meeting at Harvey Mudd College, April 2010
Joint Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America,
San Francisco, CA, January 2010

PUBLICATIONS
“On kth Roots in the Symmetric Inverse Monoid” (with T. Cannon and C. Hernandez), Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, to appear (accepted for publication-January 2011)
“On kth Roots in the Symmetric Inverse Monoid” (with T. Cannon and C. Hernandez), Dimensions,
Vol. 12 (2010), p.103-116.

### Supplemental Instruction Leader @ California State University, Fullerton
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Head of calculus supplemental instruction class
Assisted students with class assignments, quizzes, practice problems, and development of study skills
Composed weekly worksheets for various levels of math in order to prepare the students
Trained in study skills assessment and collaborative learning techniques
Prepared handouts, pop quizzes, and other learning aids for students
Attended ongoing training meetings scheduled throughout the semester with math professors
Facilitated and encouraged students to process the material
Encourage group activities which allowed students to compose their own quizzes for their peers


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
California State University, Fullerton

### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Mathematics
California State University, Fullerton


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

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