# Patricia Arbona > Senior Software Engineer Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/patriciaarbona My pronouns are "she/her". I am an empathetic backend software engineer who is actively seeking new opportunities. I have 8 years in various technology stacks, such as Python, Ruby on Rails, and Go. I have a tenacity for problem-solving. I strongly believe collaborative work environments prevent information silos. I value a diverse, inclusive workplace. I am currently located in the Washington, DC area. ## Work Experience ### Innovations Senior Software Engineer @ Truth Initiative Jan 2024 – Present | Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Building, deploying, and maintaining software to prevent youth and young adult nicotine addiction and empowering quitting for all ### Software Engineer @ DebtBook Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 • As a Software Engineer on the Ecosystem team at DebtBook, our team’s domain encompassed of: making user roles and permissions consistent throughout the entire system, and improving the experience of Admin users of DebtBook • Work with Product stakeholders to translate product requirements into approachable tickets for engineers to build. Incrementally deliver new features and improvements specifically for DebtBook’s admin users. • Lead and build new features using Ruby on Rails and React while also mentoring greener engineers via pair programming and empathetic code review • Successfully performed shifts as the on-call engineer during triage rotation, where an on-call engineer triages critical issues ### Software Engineer @ Stitch Fix Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 As a Software Engineer on the Warehouse Receiving team: • Modernized a legacy Rails app that warehouse associates use to receive and manage inventory. This legacy app was being modernized into a Go backend microservice with a Ruby on Rails UI. • Remediated incidents affecting warehouse associates during on-call support rotation. ### Software Engineer @ Mariana Tek Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Washington, District Of Columbia As a Software Engineer on the Internal Tools team, I migrate boutique fitness studio clients from legacy systems to Mariana Tek’s modernized platform. I extract, transform, and load client data via an ETL data pipeline built in Django. I also triage data migration bugs. Support robust infrastructure that manages data at scale to support data-heavy clients such as Barre Code. ### Software Engineer @ Kitcheck Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Washington D.C. Metro Area - I am a Backend Software Engineer that: - Extend several Rails API’s to automate the medication kit-restocking process at hospital pharmacies - Ship well-tested, query-efficient code to connect legacy web-apps to Zebra printers & RFID scanners - Triage live bugs during on-call rotation, resolve production support issues, and lead releases ### Software Engineer @ Ruby Together Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 Manage issue-tracker, improve documentation, and implement bug-fixes for the Bundler and RubyGems Github repositories. ### Software Engineer @ Omada Health Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California - Implemented full-stack features for Omada, a weight-loss food-tracking app for pre-diabetic patients - As a product engineer, built full-stack feature where a participant’s meal photos are rendered to their Health Coach via a private message thread ### Software Engineer @ GitHub Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area -Received competitive grant to contribute and maintain Lektor, an Open Source content management system -Collaborate with Armin Ronacher, creator of Lektor and author of Flask, to build new features, and create a front-end test-suite ### Software Developer Intern @ Ministry of Velocity Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Test-driven pair programming for client companies and open source projects in an agile environment. In collaboration with Uber and AirBus, developed uberCOPTER, an on-demand rotor-craft transportation service. Featured in major news outlets such as Bloomberg, the HuffingtonPost, and CBS. Contributing to the Callback Women project, an Open Source project that promotes technical conferences with diverse speakers: https://github.com/minifast/conference-opportunities ### Software Engineering Fellow @ Hackbright Academy Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Intensive 12-week post-graduate fellowship at a highly-selective all-women software engineering school that focuses on the following languages and frameworks: Python, Flask, SQL, Postgresql, SQLAlchemy, Javascript, JQuery, JSON, and AJAX. ### Product Marketing Intern @ McGraw-Hill Education Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 -Creation, execution and management of email campaigns and marketing collateral -Examine customer survey data to narrow down point-of-interest customer segments to best target all-digital learning plaftorms ### Academic Design Intern, World Languages Department (Spanish) @ McGraw-Hill Education Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 • Extensively proofread, edited, quality-checked, & corrected Spanish in ¡Así Se Dice!©2016 textbook, e-Books & other digital assets like: Pre-AP Worksheets, Lesson Plans in ConnectEd, & exams in e-Assessment • Replaced & renamed outdated digital assets with updated content in Content Management System • Provide organizational and administrative support to Academic Designers such as: filling out & submitting archiving forms, effectively gathering preliminary research for project planning • Transcribe, proofread, edit, & fact-check new Florida-specific Sabor magazine, a work that complements the Florida version of ¡Así Se Dice!©2016 ### Tutor and Operational and Administrative Assistant @ Tutoring Club Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Gahanna, Ohio • Built confidence in struggling students with clear explanations, repetition and appropriate rewards • Prepared daily lesson plans in narrow amount of time & recorded students’ progress • Organized Center's books, booklets, and students' binders • Discussed student progress with parents; addressed parental concerns • Answered Center’s phone calls and responded to parents’ queries • Supported Director during emergencies • Relentlessly watch for children’s safety in spite of being understaffed • Supported manager during emergency situations ### Research Assistant @ NORC at the University of Chicago Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Chicago, IL • Efficiently synthesized and organized data for the General Social Survey (widely recognized by social science researchers as the gold standard for surveys) into EndNote citation program • Edited extensive research reports on wide array of topics such as Americans’ changing religious/social attitudes • Collaborated with peers to diagnose and troubleshoot issues such as formatting errors and incorrect visual aides ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Honors in Spanish Language and Literature, Latin American Studies University of Chicago Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/parbona - GitHub: https://github.com/arbonap --- Source: https://flows.cv/patriciaarbona JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/patriciaarbona/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22