# Pablo Napolitano > Software Engineer at Figma Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/pablonapolitano I am a self-taught full-stack staff software engineer fluent in JavaScript, Python, Java, and C#, with additional experience in C++ and C. My formal education was in mechanical engineering, with a specialization in medical devices. Robotics got me started. My experience in hardware and software has taught me that quality products are built on a foundation of rigor, motivation, and flexibility. Everything I do professionally is in service of creating or building upon that foundation for my engineering organization: rigor through higher standards and better testing; motivation through opportunities for engineers to express their creativity and learn new things; and flexibility through effective communication and forethought. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Figma Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Head of Product @ withco Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States ### Founding Engineer @ withco Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Brooklyn, New York, United States ### Staff Software Engineer @ Medium Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States https://medium.com/me/design https://medium.com/me/create-subdomain https://medium.com/me • Led development of Medium's design customization tool for publications and user profiles. I was the engineering stakeholder in early conversations with company leadership, and tech lead/lead developer for the entirety of the project. • Implemented navigation customization for publications, allowing editors to better organize their content. • Contributed to Medium's 2020 rebrand and redesign efforts on the React stack, including the introduction of streamlined profile and publication homepages. • Built microservice integration and UI to enable user subdomain registration. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Medium Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York ### Senior Software Engineer II @ Blink Health Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area • Led Home Delivery engineering team as tech lead, architecting and building a platform to deliver affordable medications to users across the U.S. • Built homespun claim processing engine, enabling users to pay online and fill their prescriptions at a local pharmacy for $0 copay. • Developed a tool used to transfer existing users' prescriptions between pharmacies via fax with a single click. • Wrote data pipeline to collect and aggregate pricing data from various sources. • Built ETL processes to ingest pharmacy, provider and drug datasets for transactional use. ### Software Engineer @ Evoke Neuroscience Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area • Built up the company’s stateless RESTful backend API, including the design and development of the API’s ORM, entity-level authorization logic, and token-based authentication protocol, as well as robust unit and integration testing of the system. • Redesigned the company’s core application, which is used by clinicians and their patients to record and transmit EEG data to the company’s servers for analysis and generation of patient-friendly reports. • Designed, built and implemented an automated provisioning procedure for new client systems, which reduced the total time required to provision a new system by 91% and reduced the number of man-hours required by 72%, increasing the company’s capacity for sales by over 500%. • Acted as Director of IT for August 2016, including remote server maintenance, backup generation and data integrity assurance. ### Advanced Engineering Intern @ Covidien Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | North Haven, CT • Worked full time over the summer of 2014 designing and developing medical device assembly fixtures to test the electrical connections of Covidien’s powered surgical stapling device. • Worked with EH&S to optimize ease of use, user safety and manufacturing convenience for each fixture. • Coordinated with R&D teams to detailed fixtures according to dimensional tolerances of components being tested. • Coordinated with supervisors, manufacturing teams and coworkers in order to design to company’s electrical and mechanical specifications. ### Orthotic Design Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Yale University Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 • Worked full time over the summers of 2012 and 2013, and part-time during the 2012-2013 school year, under the guidance of Professor Aaron Dollar and his graduate student Kamran Shamaei. • Fabricated a modular-stiffness orthotic device during the summer of 2012, spending over 300 hours in a machine shop, the majority spent operating a non-CNC mill. • Designed a miniaturized control system for the orthotic device, including component choices and purchases, schematic design, thru-hole PCB design, and programming a PIC microcontroller in C. • Gained valuable experience in electrical connection techniques, including soldering and crimping. • Listed as coauthor of published journal paper A Quasi-Passive Compliant Stance Control Knee-Ankle-Foot Orthosis. ### Medical Device Design Project Manager @ Yale University Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 • Worked during the fall semester of 2013 developing a piecewise prototype of an automatic drug delivery device for pediatric hemophilia patients, under the guidance of Dr. Joseph Zinter, Dr. Richard Fan, and Dr. Kurt Roberts, MD. • Took a leadership role in the design process, using broad skillset and organizational abilities to optimize group performance. • Did significant research in the field of drug delivery, including functional dissection of existing drug delivery devices. ### Design Lab Assistant @ Yale University Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 • Learned basics of design and fabrication under the guidance of Mr. Glenn Weston-Murphy. • Kept organized and well-stocked all lab rooms, including set-up and breakdown of lab equipment. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mechanical Engineering Yale University Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ### High School Diploma in Aerospace Engineering Brooklyn Technical High School Jan 2006 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pnapolitano --- Source: https://flows.cv/pablonapolitano JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/pablonapolitano/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23