# Oana Theogarajan

> Experienced software engineer | Tech Lead | Problem solver

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/oana

Particle physicist turned software engineer and loving it. 

Results-driven staff engineer with 11+ years of backend and full-stack experience, specializing in scalable systems, database optimization, and cross-functional leadership. Proven ability to mentor engineers, lead high-impact projects, and quickly adapt to new technologies (Ruby on Rails, Python/Django, .NET), consistently driving product improvements and delivering on critical deadlines. Dedicated to solving complex problems for both customers and development teams.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Mindbody
Jan 2021 – Present | Greater Boston
- Led a high-priority cross-team initiative to achieve 98% 10DLC registration compliance ahead of the deadline, preventing $120K in penalties and service interruptions to our customers, and outperforming similar ISVs.
- Quickly adapted an incomplete registration system to meet urgent compliance requirements and spearheaded a data model redesign that improved system stability, observability, and maintainability.
- Onboarded and mentored engineers new to Ruby on Rails, elevating team code quality and reducing technical debt while meeting tight deadlines. 
- Without prior experience in Python/Django, led a team to optimize a high-traffic database query, achieving a six-fold speed improvement that reduced key endpoint latency by 25%.
- Found low effort-high impact opportunities and made changes to reduce load, speed up local development and deployment, improve maintainability and extensibility in parts of the code
- Integrated OpenAI’s API into an existing chatbot framework to automate FAQ handling, reducing human intervention by 20%.
- Led the team’s first development of a service in C# (.NET), drawing on organizational knowledge and quickly upskilling in the framework. Created a reusable template for Kubernetes cron job scaffolding to streamline future projects.
- Provided technical guidance on high-priority issues, such as coordinating data recovery efforts post-incident and creating strategies for cross-domain data synchronization in support of a major company-wide initiative.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Mindbody
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Acted as technical lead and architect for the marketing suite department consisting of 15-20 engineers, advising and mentoring more junior engineers, and acting as technical point of contact with other technical departments within the company.
- Architected and led the implementation of a CRM microservice, adapting it from a team-specific service to support use cases across the organization, as well as complex legacy data synchronization.
- Independently took over and completed a critical business microservice, which supports API calls for 60+ microservices and Lambda functions, and is relied on by additional services through Kinesis event consumption.
- Developed convenience gems to streamline event handling for consuming services, adopted by approximately 7 Ruby on Rails services supporting eventing.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Copper Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Served as tech lead for a new site-wide developer API initiative, establishing standards and guiding adoption across a team of 40+ engineers.
- Developed a provisioning API to streamline setup processes for end users.
- Designed and implemented offline support for the company’s Android app
- Full stack for ~ half a year (Ruby on Rails/Ember), then back-end after the team was organized into server and client devs

### Software Engineer @ Copper Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Stitch Fix
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Full stack development in Ruby on Rails/JavaScript
- Developed end to end new features needed by the merchandising team, improved existing features

### Software Engineer @ AppFolio Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
- Full stack web developer working on back-end (Ruby on Rails, MySql) and front-end (Javascript, CSS, HTML)
- Work in small interdisciplinary teams using Agile practices
- Actively involved in all stages of the software development lifecycle - defining requirements, design, implementation, testing 
- Worked on the architecture team tackling the restructuring of a monolithic app towards a micro-service architecture


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
UC Santa Barbara

### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Physics
Yale University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31