# Peter Finn > Frontend Focused Software Engineer Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/peterfinn I'm Peter, but you can call me Pete. I'm a software developer with a knack for Frontend, and these days you can find me working with all things React, TypeScript, and more. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ 1Password Jan 2023 – Present ### Staff Software Engineer @ DataGrail Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 ### Engineering Manager @ DataGrail Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 - Took over as manager of the Request Manager team to lead the discovery, design, and delivery of DataGrail's first analytics dashboard offering which lead to a 76% reduction in overdue Privacy Requests in 6 months - Participated in two separate revamps of the Company Core Values during this tenure, as well as smaller initiatives designed to help the company adapt to remote work effectively. ### Staff Software Engineer @ DataGrail Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Hired on as the first Frontend focused developer for the engineering team. Engineering teams were struggling to build out a delightful, interactive web experience for customers while also keeping things maintainable and tested. Initial goals were to migrate away from SSR (Ruby Rails + HAML) to React, educate team on how to unit test frontend code, introduce TypeScript, improve tooling and infrastructure, improve developer enablement by creating a culture of learning and continuous improvement, and much more. Things I'm Proud Of: - Owned the Frontend architecture of the entire platform, and helped enable the team to achieve their goal of improving the app experience to the point of rivaling modern SAAS applications. - Project Lead for multiple Frontend focused, mission critical projects at once to help secure SalesForce as a customer at an early stage - Successfully rolled out a Design System, which was implemented as a custom theme on top of React Material UI. (Although I have created a UI Kit from scratch previously, a third party solution made a lot more sense for the business at its current stage and skill level in engineering which I learned the hard way in my previous experiences) - Introduced tools such as React Testing Library along with unit testing best practices, eslint and Prettier, the use of themes with Styled Components, and a Design Review process to help reduce the number of visual defects and missed customer flows introduced in to the product ### Senior Frontend Developer @ DataGrail Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### Senior Frontend Developer @ Salesloft Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 Hired as an early Frontend focused engineer (Series B Stage). Passionate proponent of best practices, peer feedback, and company core values. Worked on many various delivery teams delivering excellent products and features throughout the Sales Enablement stack. Things I'm Proud of: - Selected to represent the SalesLoft engineering organization to work with the Costello engineering team on the acquisition and integration of the Costello company platform into the SalesLoft ecosystem. Integration project was the #1 company objective, was completed in 90 days. Involved technologies such as React, Typescript, and a bit of Golang + Ruby - Organized and lead the Frontend Internal Meetups - Selected to work on the Frontend Enablement Team, which was founded to help augment and accelerate the organization's Frontend abilities through building the SalesLoft Design System and other packages, advising teams on Frontend Architectural Patterns, and educating developers on best practices through personally organized and leading the Frontend Internal Meetups. - Selected as one of two engineers representing SalesLoft in the acquisition and integration of the NoteNinja company platform into the SalesLoft ecosystem. Project deadline was set for an incredibly aggressive 90 days from acquisition, which we then completed in 68. Worked to integrate the frontend React projects, as well as the Node.js GraphQL layer - "React Evangelist" at SalesLoft, helping to lead the effort to re-write the entire frontend application from AngularJS into React - Regularly consult with Software Architects as a member of the UI Architecture Brain Trust - Led the project to convert our build pipeline from the Rails Asset Pipeline to Gulp, which then enabled us to migrate to Webpack 4.x - Nominated by manager to serve on the SalesLoft Core Values interview team, and to attend the LEAD program (6 month leadership development) - Recipient of the company wide SalesLoft Star award (Jan 2018) ### Full Stack Engineer @ Cardlytics Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Full Stack developer on various Agile teams that create internal content management systems. Main responsibilities include creating AngularJS apps, ASP.NET APIs, working with ORMs and MySQL databases, and collaborating with the UX team to design and implement great looking web apps. Also balanced daily development responsibilities with many R&D, “Black Ops”, and internally requested side projects ### Junior Software Developer @ Clearleap Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Created and maintained an internal web application used to run and manage the company automated testing suites. Application built with JavaScript, Java, Groovy on Grails, Bootstrap, Apache JMeter, Quartz, PostgreSQL ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Southern Polytechnic State University Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/peter-finn-4a957a235 --- Source: https://flows.cv/peterfinn JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/peterfinn/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22