# Patrick Racenberg > Engineer. Currently taking a break. Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/patrickracenberg I care about creating great and accessible user experiences, and enabling engineers to “move fast” in creating those experiences without breaking any existing functionality along the way. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer - Frontend @ Iterable Jan 2021 – Jan 2026 Acted as tech lead of quarter-long initiatives to introduce new functionality to the Iterable web application, shepherding projects through their entire lifecycle – from conception through ongoing support in production. Improved every part of the frontend developer experience, including: introducing TypeScript and leading a migration of the frontend codebase from JS into TS for better type safety; improving the speed of the code deployment and CI processes by over 200%; improving the local development experience via an internal developer chrome plugin; upgrading and maintaining important third-party dependencies, including three major React version updates (from v15 -> v18); and improving the speed and effectiveness of writing unit tests through the introduction of better frameworks (react testing library) and standards. Modernized extensive parts of the Iterable web application from its legacy codebase written in server-side rendered AngularJs to a client-side React codebase. Lead the technical development of Iterable’s internal design system. And I've also deleted more code than I've written. ### Senior Software Engineer - Frontend @ Iterable Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 ### Software Engineer - Frontend @ Iterable Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Engineer, User Experience @ CreativeLive Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Enhanced the user experience of an online learning platform used by 2 million users by building new functionality, including chat-rooms for viewers of live classes to communicate with one another and the instructor and functionality to listen to podcast episodes produced by CreativeLive. Overhauled the site to allow for a subscription-based service model to live along the existing ad hoc purchasing of individual classes model. ### Full Stack Engineer @ SketchDeck Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale Built a system to create accurate project deadlines by monitoring project completion rate and taking into account worker availability, improving our deadline compliance from 40% to 99%. Improved platform reliability by making our end-to-end testing suite behave more accurately to real use; bugs in production associated with our Apache Kafka event streams were cut in half. ### Frontend Developer @ InboxVudu Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Built responsive landing-pages from provided designs. ### Web Development Immersive Teacher Assistant @ General Assembly Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Mentored students on the underlying concepts of Node.js/Express and Ruby on Rails. Debugged student applications using chrome console/Mocha/Chai/RSpec allowing for projects to be completed on time. ### Program Manager, Electronic Outreach @ Sierra Club Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Act as online outreach liaison to 44 Sierra Club Chapters by providing technical and strategic support in creating effective online outreach. Create, edit, and copy-write emails reaching targeted audiences of up to 330,000 constituents. Design and Lead internal department trainings on best practices for online outreach. ### UBIT (University at Buffalo IT) Student Web Writer @ University at Buffalo Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Write and edit content for the redesign of the UBIT departmental website, as well as the manual for the UB Content Management System. Create the style-guide for all UBIT branded content. ## Education ### M.A. in English University at Buffalo Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ### B.A. in English University of California, Riverside Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pracenberg - Website: http://www.racenberg.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/patrickracenberg JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/patrickracenberg/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22