# Mick Berber

> Staff Software Engineer at SoFi

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

People come to me with their git issues

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ SoFi
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ SoFi
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025

### Senior Software Engineer @ Metromile
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
- Led the engineering effort of our Mobile Quote Experience team to release Ride Along while working in a triad with a product manager and designer to evaluate technical difficulties and break down work. (Won an award and got on TV!)
- Created a component library with >50 reusable components with common styles, spacings and api surfaces to standardize usage and views in the React Native app.
- Built out project tooling and infrastructure for Ride Along including setting up Jest unit and snapshot tests, Sentry error logging, prettier code formatting, Jenkins builds.
- Added new endpoints to the company’s Spring Boot Quote Service for clients to apply coverage packages to a quote enabling a ~15% lift in users viewing a rate.
- Participated in code reviews, helping mentor junior and mid level engineers with coding best practices, jumping into debugging sessions and random git issues.

### Squad Lead @ Metromile
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Software Engineer, Frontend @ Metromile
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, Ca
- Implemented A/B tests with Optimizely in the Angular Quote Enroll flow to help inform decisions of the Growth team.
- Translated wire-frames, mockups and visual design assets into engaging and user-friendly web experiences using Sass, HTML and JavaScript for multiple browsers and screen sizes.
- Collaborated with a distributed remote engineering, design and product team to define features and provide technical input about implementation.

### Software Engineer @ OneMob
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, Ca
- Collaborated with a distributed remote engineering, design and product team to define features and provide technical input about implementation.
- Owned the OneScreen Chrome extension as the lead developer, growing the product from ~100 to ~3000 total  daily users.
- Reduced the extension codebase by ~25% through following ReactJS best practices and using ES6 classes to modularize the views into reusable components.
- Recorded audio and video media streams by utilizing in-browser WebRTC capabilities to get media device access, and RecordRTC to save the streams in a WebM/H264 format.
- Painted multiple images from screen and webcam streams to HTML5 canvas elements to create composite recordings resulting in increased product usage of ~1000 extra users.
- Upgraded build tools from Gulp and Webpack 2.0 to Webpack 4.0, integrating plugins, loaders and removing extra build steps, resulting in a reduced codebase size of ~20% and improving build times by ~95%.
- Saved engineering team ~10 hours weekly in debugging front-end views through incorporating Redux into ReactJS components for predictable state management.
- Maintained and added features to the Rails/AngularJS application servicing ~5000 daily users.
- Translated wire-frames, mockups and visual design assets into engaging and user-friendly web experiences using Sass, HTML and JavaScript for multiple browsers and screen sizes.
- Created Rails controllers to fetch and update modelled data by following CRUD conventions.
- Added 150+ feature tests with Rspec and Capybara to ensure developer confidence in newly written code.

### Front End Developer @ Pexeso
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Constructed draggable video component enabling users to create media snippets for company algorithm search utilizing ReactJS and CSS3 designed to save the company ~$1000 per customer.
- Integrated video component into company platform by creating new routes with react-router, passing data with ImmutableJS and managing application state with Redux.
- Minimized file size of extracted style sheets by ~83% by migrating company app to Webpack 2.0 configuration.
- Built company corporate static website to designed specifications with JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3.
- Wrote custom script files with JavaScript to preload 30+ images and other files for improved user experience.


## Education
### General Studies
Saddleback College

### Los Angeles Pierce College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michaelberber
- Website: https://github.com/mickberber

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Last updated: 2026-04-01