# Pablo Ugas > Problem solver by trade, builder by passion — I bring ideas to life, sometimes with code, sometimes with wood, most the time with glue, always with care Location: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/pablougas Hey there — I’m a full-stack software engineer who genuinely loves building things, whether it's slick UI components, full-featured web apps, or some odd little side project that probably didn’t need to exist... but now does (and looks great, too). I’ve spent the better part of a decade writing code for both frontend and backend, and while I specialize in JavaScript frameworks like Vue, React, and Angular, I’m just as comfortable wiring up the backend with Ruby on Rails, Node, or Python. I enjoy seeing ideas through from napkin sketch to production and love building systems that are both performant and delightful to use. Outside of code, I’ve led teams, mentored junior devs, taught community coding classes, and launched apps into the cloud (AWS, GCP, take your pick). I care deeply about craftsmanship — writing clean code, obsessing over details, and always testing (Jest, Pytest, Playwright, Cypress… let's go). A few of my favorite tools and toys: Frontend: Vue (w/ TS), React (w/ TS), Angular, SCSS, Material UI Backend: Ruby on Rails, Node, Python Testing: Jest, Pytest, Playwright, Cypress Infra: AWS, Docker, GCP But enough about tech. I'm a dad of three, a soccer nerd, a snowboard addict, and a passionate connoisseur of donuts (seriously, ask me about the best one I’ve found on a road trip). I thrive on curiosity, creativity, and getting to build things with people who care about what they’re making. If you're building something cool — or just want to swap donut recommendations — let's connect. 👋 ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Verify Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States ### Contract Software Engineer @ IntelliTect Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Spokane, Washington, United States ### Senior Front End Software Engineer @ Rohinni Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 As a senior frontend software engineer at Rohinni I was responsible for architecting, designing and developing an electron application using Vue.js, jest, playwright, cypress and MQTT that was used to control an LED Placement machine in real time. This role included the following activities - Research feature requests and develop Product Requirements Document - Review product requirements documents with stakeholders and modify/elaborate as needed - Break down tasks into Jira Epics, Stories and tasks for other engineers and interns - Build out Azure DevOps pipeline to build, lint, test and release new artifacts into network folders where new releases can then be installed into machines - Develop Playwright tests for automated testing - Maintain over 80% unit test coverage through Jest - Provide company wide weekly updates on front end engineering progress ### Software Engineer III @ Knock® CRM Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States Python / React / SCSS / Postgres / AWS - Knock While I was at Knock, I managed a few projects, helped fix a lot of data issues and finally got to build some new things from the ground up. One of the major project I was responsible for the Knock chrome extension that automated listing apartment rentals on craigslist, Knock apartment websites and a widget called Doorway. Doorway was the initial product that Knock launched that was a website chat bot for apartment rental businesses. It was built using React and Python and was built over a time period of 2 weeks, it had zero test code coverage and zero monitoring. In my first year my at Knock I accomplished the following: - Took the JQuery apartment websites and converted them to Next.js SSR apartments listings, added jest test coverage to 80%. - Upgraded Doorway from React 14 to React 16 - Integrated error monitoring through cloudwatch / new relic - Added jest for test coverage to over 80% - Added pytest coverage for backend API to 80% coverage - Added a new feature to allow Knock and clients to integrate Google Analytics into Doorway to give us and users more insights into how renters were using doorway. - Cleaned up all errors and was able to turn Doorway into an error monitor for other applications up stream - Assisted in the cleanup of time errors by funneling our user data into a data warehouse, created query documents that allowed us to track any new errors and created python scripts to cleanup old data errors. We worked on this cleanup for almost a year. - Assisted in the documentation and build out of a new greenfield project using React / Material UI, Apollo / GraphQL and Node.js. - Optimized apps by integrating central state with Redux and reducing refresh - Researched and integrated accessibility features and testing into our CI/CD pipeline ### Co-Founder @ Sky9 Consulting Jan 2015 – Jan 2022 | United States ### Senior Front End Software Engineer @ Paragon Technology Solutions, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Los Angeles, California, United States ### Software Engineer II - Contract @ Getty Images Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, Washington, United States Ruby / Angular 2 / SCSS - Getty Images / iStockPhoto Work on new bucket feature from front to back that allows users to collaborate on images for specific projects. Think pinterest "boards". Project had a product owner, project manager, a team of 4 engineers including myself, designers and translators. It was built over a 3 month contract in 2018 and still somewhat exists in its original state. I personally worked on this feature from front to back, including internationalization. - Created a function in vanilla js to determine and read screen sizes and monitor types. - If you hover over the images on desktop there are some buttons that are displayed. I put those there :D - When you hover over some of the buttons I built the tooltips, including the interactive one that allows you to save an image to a specific board. - Once you select save, I also built the toaster alert that displays at the bottom of the screen. - With every edit or addition we made we had to measure performance and ensure that any items we were adding were either extremely minimal or lazy loading as to not delay the displaying of the search results. ### Lead Software Engineer @ LEASERA Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | United States ### Co-Founder @ CPQ+ Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Irvine, California, United States ### VP Vendor Relations @ Envision Capital Group LLC Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Irvine ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pablougas --- Source: https://flows.cv/pablougas JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/pablougas/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22