# Minh R. > Software Engineer at Brilliant Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/minhr Software engineer, startup exit and acquisition experience, first time entrepreneur and investor. http://minhreigen.com ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer - Remote @ Brilliant Jan 2022 – Present I focused on building and scaling web applications with Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, managing databases with MySQL, and improving performance using Redis, Sidekiq for background job monitoring. I deployed services with Kubernetes and kept everything running smoothly by monitoring with tools like Honeycomb and Rollbar. I also used Metabase to track key metrics and helped streamline our deployment processes with CI/CD pipelines. It was a hands-on role that gave me a lot of experience with cloud infrastructure and microservices architecture. ### Software Engineer - Remote @ Vendorful Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 I helped build out and improved features of the product with Elixir / Phoenix and Postgres. I had much fun learning and applying Elixir and Phoenix in the first year. In the second year working here, I helped improve the performance of the app in several places and introduce new programming techniques and best practices in Elixir to the dev team. In this third year, I mentor new team members that are still new to Elixir / Phoenix and also work on fixing bugs, implement features, speed improvements, ... ### Software Engineer - Remote @ SurveyMonkey Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area I was in charged of writing new features for Survey Management system in Ruby on Rails. I worked with project managers, designers and other devs daily to get the tasks done perfectly. ### Co-Founder and CTO @ YesLLama Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Founded the company and is in charge of technology and execution. LLama uses technology to help finding the dishes you will love near you. I wear many hats including tech, sales, marketing, operation... - Cold calling, door to door sales, onboard customers. ­- Back­end work including DB (Postgres, Redis), SOLR, dev­ops (AWS, EC2, S3, Route53), APIs (Ruby on Rails), data management, deployment (Capistrano, Jenkins), automated testing (RSpec, Postman + Jenkins), etc... - Managing an offshore data reviewing / analyzing team. ­- Co­lab with and managed the offshore mobile developing team. ­- Via testing the apps in real life, taste tested many good dishes in SF, LA, NY and London. ### Senior Software Engineer Contract @ Pillow Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Helped the engineering team improve the code base with Rails best practices, back-end code restructuring, speed-up remedies and fixes. (PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, Redis, ReactJS, RSpec, Heroku) ### Software Engineer Team Lead @ Lexmark Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area - Led the building process of the Content Management System (CMS) including multiple micro-services. - Led the team to design and implement the back-end API for the CMS using Ruby on Rails with MongoDB and Redis and QA-ing. - Led the deployment and releasing process, discussion, qa/testing and execution - Reviewed user stories’ requirements and acceptance criteria. - Ensured teammates have what they need to produce high quality code while still be able to enjoy the process. ### Software Engineer @ Lexmark Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 Twistage was acquired by Perceptive Software / Lexmark in March 2013. Implemented new features and maintained the codebase: AWS uploader, Rails APIs, cross product API integration, RSpec, automation testing with Postman, Jenkins. ### Software Engineer @ Twistage Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area - In charge of developing and maintaining the media Uploader (front-end and back-end) to upload and extract metadata from media files, then send them to the encoding service. - Integrate HTML5 media players with the company's core APIs. Responsible for releasing them across desktop and mobile browsers. Integrate several ad networks onto these HTML5 players using their APIs. - Build MVPs from scratch with a small team for company's new ideas using Ruby on Rails / AngularJS: Software to replace chromatic (green-screen) in a video with advertisement images, speech recognition and text transcribing / translation... ### ASP.NET C#, Silverlight and IPhone Developer @ Gamania Digital Entertainment Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Developed a Content Management System (CMS) and Front-End development for the company’s game websites using ASP.NET with C# - SOAP Web-services and MSSQL 2005. Silverlight widgets and iPhone apps development. ### Software and Web Development Intern @ OneScreen Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 iPhone app development using Objective-C. Maintained the company's WordPress sites in PHP. Created Java programs to monitor the company's advertisements. ### Robot Research Assistantship @ Cal Poly Pomona Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 Programming Haptics Devices ## Education ### BS in Computer Science California State Polytechnic University-Pomona ### Associate's degree in Computer Science Orange Coast College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/minhreigen - Portfolio: https://medium.com/@mreigen - Portfolio: http://minhreigen.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/minhr JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/minhr/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10