# Madeline Streilein > Software @ Commons, founding team Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/madelinestreilein Full stack engineer with a background in electoral politics and cultural Anthropology. I believe tech should be used in the interest of the public good. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer IV @ Commons Jan 2026 – Present | Oakland, CA ### Software Engineer III @ Commons Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | Oakland, California, United States ### Software Engineer II @ Commons Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Oakland, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ Commons Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Oakland, California, United States ### Software Development Intern @ Commons Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 ### Full Stack Developer @ Savas Labs Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Oakland, California, United States ### Frontend Developer @ Savas Labs Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Durham, North Carolina, United States Tools utilized: React, Redux, Firebase, React Native, Node, Express, Pantheon, Heroku, Tailwind, Drupal 8, WordPress ### Junior Frontend Developer @ Savas Labs Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area React, JS, JQuery, Webpack, web accessibility, Twig, TailwindCSS, Sass, Firestore Drupal: site building, theming, custom module development, views ### Software Engineer @ Project Shift Software Engineering Fellowship Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Durham, North Carolina Project Shift is a competitive Full Stack Software Engineering program that accepts only 30% of applicants. The program combines Computer Science principles, industry framework, coding projects, and industry mentorship. - 750+ hours learning and creating Full Stack applications in a full-time immersive certificate program - Started with root technologies and computer science principles to gain an understanding of how frameworks work - Learned underlying foundation behind Full Stack frameworks (i.e. MVC Data Flow, Backbone, React/Redux, Express.js) - Developed optimized front-end applications by handling MVC data flow - Engineered Back End applications and RESTful APIs using Node with Express and MongoDB - Utilized git/Github daily Final project: Divert Durham - MERN app with Google Places API integration for individuals to participate in a community-based compost share. Individuals with food waste can find community gardens/farms/individuals with gardens and compost solutions nearby to engage with and drop off their scraps. ### Special Projects Director @ North Carolina Democratic Party Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Raleigh, North Carolina - Directed a robust peer-to-peer mobilization and Text Out the Vote program that brought in 800 digital volunteers to text over 1.3 million voters - Created the training documentation for statewide digital, export organizer, and field Get Out the Vote plans - Designed and led statewide GOTV training for 52 Field Organizers and regional volunteer leadership trainings - Collaborated with outside organizations to administer and train our 70 member staff on various digital organizing tools like MobilizeAmerica, Hustle, TeamApp, etc. ### Regional Field Director @ Philip Levine for Governor Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Southwest FL -Served in Pinellas and Lee counties to execute the PLFG statewide field plan with daily and weekly direct voter contact and volunteer team building metrics -Developed training materials for Votebuilder, Hustle, MobilizeAmerica, Groundgame -Built the field program in Lee County: hired, trained, and managed Field Organizers, oversaw the office opening, coordinated supporter housing, debate attendance/visibility -Supervised the Miami-Dade field program during GOTV efforts ### Campus Development Intern @ Presence Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Saint Petersburg, Florida - Managed various market research projects not limited to: potential campus partners, collegia, state vendor registration, and student learning and development outcomes and accreditation standards like CAS - Utilized business intelligence, communication, and analytic tools such as Slack, Trello, and Podio, and maintained Pipedrive and Hubspot CRM software for the sales team - Built out and tested features on new co-curricular software platform prior to client roll-out - Compiled a reference library of security and technical specifications and assessment answers for new clients and RFPs ### Ford Apprentice Scholar @ Eckerd College Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Eckerd College "Each year up to twenty rising Juniors are given the opportunity to participate in a two year course of study designed to prepare them for graduate school and to pursue a career in college or university teaching. Faculty select and sponsor the participants on the basis of academic achievement, intellectual promise, and a willingness to explore college teaching as career. The program involves special coursework, summer research in collaboration with a faculty sponsor, a major project during the senior year, and supervised teaching experience. The essential elements of the program are a two semester course in the History of Ideas in the Junior year concluding with a symposium at which the Apprentice Scholars make public presentations; a summer research project in close collaboration with their faculty sponsor; a major research project as a Senior; publication of an article based on this research in the Eckerd Scholar; and a year-long weekly seminar during the Senior year in which they share progress reports on their research, hear from individual faculty members on life as a professor, and discuss major issues having to do with contemporary higher education." [https://www.eckerd.edu/ford/] ### Resident Advisor @ Eckerd College Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 As a Resident Advisor, I fill the fluid roles of mentor, advocate, mediator, community builder, emergency management and policy enforcer for thirty-six undergraduates. ### Crew Member @ Cocoa Cinnamon Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area "Cocoa Cinnamon strives to be a vessel for discourse and sustainability. We believe it is more subversive to be a space in which diversity of idea, belief and background are sought and cultivated than to profess a specific politics. Coffee, chocolate and tea are age old lubricants for ideas."​ [http://www.cocoacinnamon.com/whatwedo/] As a crew member I am part of a team that is responsible for the creation of handcrafted coffee, tea, chocolate, and espresso drinks, providing warm customer service, contributing to a wholesome workplace environment, and acting as an ambassador for the shop. Cocoa Cinnamon is a living part of the Durham community; the shop offers living wages for it's employees, rallies behind the importance of sustainable development, and strives to collaborate mostly with other local vendors, artists, and businesses when building, expanding, and producing. ### Field Organizer - Coordinated Campaign @ Hillary for America Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Pinellas County Utilizing VoteBuilder, I recruited, trained, and maintained 200+ volunteers to register voters, phone bank, and canvass for Hillary for America // Florida Democratic Party. I organized supporter housing for fellow staff/interns, and trained a leadership team of community members. I also ran GOTV and assisted in the management of rallies/visibility events. I was responsible for St. Pete Beach, Pass-a-grille, Gulfport, Tierra Verde, South Pasadena, southwest St. Petersburg and south central St. Petersburg. ### Organizing Fellow - Coordinated Campaign @ Florida Democratic Party Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | St. Peterburg, Florida In this demanding and dynamic role, I registered voters, completed volunteer and voter outreach via phone banks and canvassing, trained volunteers in voter registration and phone banking, utilized the NGP VAN database, and networked to build relationships within the North St. Petersburg community. Dedicated to electing Democrats up and down the ticket, we campaigned for local and state candidates as well as the (presumptive) presidential nominee. ### Founder and President @ Eckerd Student Refugee Alliance (ESRA) Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL The Eckerd Student Refugee Alliance exists to offer peer education, advocacy, and student assistance to refugees relocated to Pinellas County area, as needed. ESRA wishes to educate students on the causes of forced migration, the various sources of refugees and asylum seekers at large, past and present, and current laws regarding the entry and resources offered to these groups in the United States. ESRA further stands to advocate for public support of refugees and to raise allotments of refugee quotas; lastly, ESRA works with local community providers that offer services related to resettlement to aid the successful transition to life in Florida. To date, events include the three part of Plight of Refugees Film and Discussion series and an ESRA-ECOS-Service Learning Field Day with the Refugee Youth Program of Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Anthropology Eckerd College ### 120 hour certification in TESOL Hampshire College ### High School Diploma in Writing Honors Durham School of the Arts ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/madelinestreilein --- Source: https://flows.cv/madelinestreilein JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/madelinestreilein/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30