# pb h.

> computerist

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/pb

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Engineer @ Coverbase
Jan 2025 – Present

### Freelance Software Engineer @ Unknown
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Participant @ Recurse Center
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
Experimented with OS-level user interface interactions on macOS using Swift and SwiftUI
Designed and created a performant (1.2s Lighthouse FCP) public transit mobile web application in Python, Rust and HTMX
Creating games and interactive visualizations using Three.js and Lua

### Software Engineer @ Vercel
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
I scoped and built out features in Vercel’s dashboard and comments products:

Integrating project management applications into Comments. (https://vercel.com/changelog/convert-comments-on-preview-deployments-to-linear-issues) I gathered engineering requirements, iterated via an internal MVP, and shipped a fast, efficient way to integrate Vercel comments to the Linear issue tracker. I collaborated with engineering and product teams, and made sure this ran smoothly on every browser in every device.

A deployment filter for Vercel’s dashboard. (https://vercel.com/changelog/deployment-environment-filtering-now-available)

In addition, I built high-quality, high-complexity user interface components for the Vercel design system, including a dynamic text-driven file picker and a mobile drawer component. Implementing these components required extensive investigation, testing on multiple iOS and Android devices, and learning everything about the iOS Safari keyboard you would ever want to know.

### Senior Software Engineer I @ Compass
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seattle
Engineering owner of Listing Editor App, a web app for editing real estate listings, implemented with: JavaScript, React, Redux, Node.js, Cypress, TypeScript
Received innovation award for engineering division hackathon project where I prototyped direct inline editing, reducing time spent on routine tasks by 3x; presently on product roadmap
Created and delivered a component library for an integration with an internal CRM product, completely managing both data lifecycle and state, using TypeScript and Storybook
Delivering a front-end technical refresh to increase engineering velocity, testing quality, and user experience and remove technical debt overseeing unprecedented year-over-year usage growth (+58.8%) and monthly active users growth (+16%)
Collaborated with product and design systems teams to deliver consistent and intuitive user experiences while executing a company-wide pivot toward virtual real estate showings
Scaling team productivity: onboarding and mentoring new hires, maintaining and documenting best practices and standardizing operational procedures

### Software Engineer II @ Compass
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Seattle

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Redmond
Prototyped, designed, and engineered two front-end webapps in six months using TypeScript and React, collaborating across functional teams to create products ready to ship
Implemented cross-platform client features in Information Protection SDK, a client library for an information rights-management and data-loss prevention service, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android platforms, using C++11, Objective-C, Java, and C#
Designed and implemented service for processing large enterprise data sets
Co-mentored and guided a team of three interns on the design and implementation of an extension to Information Protection SDK

### Software Engineer Intern @ Demonware
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Vancouver
Designed and engineered command-line client features for an tech infrastructure management platform, implemented with Python, for provisioning and orchestrating infrastructure for multiplayer AAA video games numbering approx. 4,800 servers
Increased network reliability and operational velocity by writing a network configuration microservice in Python, deployed via Docker and CoreOS across three datacenters


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Engineering Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/polysemous
- Website: https://pbt.dev

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Source: https://flows.cv/pb
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/pb/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-01