# Pierre Maris > Backend-focused full stack software engineer with experience in Python, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript and React Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/pierremaris ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Academia.edu Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Handshake Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 Full-stack development in React + TypeScript with a Ruby on Rails backend ### Software Engineer @ Handshake Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Owned and was solely responsible for feature development and maintenance of a Ruby on Rails REST API providing the backend for an iOS and Android mobile application with 90,000 daily users. ### Software Engineer @ Lytmus, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Primary developer responsible for a Python + Pylons REST API • Maintained a microservice for managing pools of Amazon Web Services EC2 instances, and created a mocked environment running inside of a Docker container to allow for testing in a development environment • Automated running Android emulators inside of virtual machines for conducting Android interview assessments ## Education ### Certificate in Java Programming City College of San Francisco ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pierremaris --- Source: https://flows.cv/pierremaris JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/pierremaris/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01