# Raymond Ferrell

> Software Engineer | raymondferrell.com

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/raymondferrell

I have a strong passion in creating systems that inspire others to reach their full potential. By gaining coding skills through online courses hosted by great universities, I have witnessed the power of technology first hand. My goal is to use the limitless potential of computer software to create new and innovative ways to improve social mobility, creativity and education for people all over the world.

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value" - Albert Einstein

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Netflix
Jan 2021 – Present | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Studio UI builds the user experiences used by our internal and external creative partners producing original content. With well over 180 million paid memberships and growing, our UIs enable the entire workflow of content production, from pitch to play, and provide innovative new ways to develop and manage entertainment at scale.

### Software Engineer III @ Credit Karma
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Charlotte, North Carolina
As a SWE III I built and released features for Credit Karma's tax filing software, Wirecutter's (NYTimes) Best Tax Filing Software and Kiplinger's Best Tax Software Value. I owned several features throughout the service, such as the withholding forecaster, an interactive graph that calculated users' tax withholdings, the tax calculator, and the member support chat application.

Now I am on the mortgage team owning the platform where users can write reviews for their mortgage lender and creating the subscription service for users to receive mortgage offers with lower rates via email.

### Software Engineer II @ Credit Karma
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Charlotte, North Carolina
● Added features to the tax filing product using React, Redux, Emotion, and Spring
● Helped add monetization to the tax product for the first time using GraphQL
● Created APIs for the native app to communicate with the fraud detection service using PHP, TypeScript and GraphQL
● Added fraud detection logic to the legacy codebase using PHP
● Created interactive graphs using tax data with React, Victory.js and GraphQL

### Software Engineer & Co-Founder @ YoUXpert
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Charlotte, North Carolina Area
● Created a software design and development agency during college, providing WiX, SEO, A/B testing, design and full stack development services
● Created a consulting firm that provides Search Engine Optimization, A/B testing, web design and web development
● Developed company corporate site using JavaScript, ES6, and ReactJS, increasing sales by > 60% after launch
● Engineered eCommerce website Relax, Let Us Work using Wix, SEO and Google Analytics allowing users to purchase personal concierge services online, increasing sales by 40%
● Conducted user research , cognitive walkthroughs and A/B testing for the website of the parental control startup Zabra , increasing visitors per week by 50%

Archived website at https://raymond427.github.io/youxpert

### Full Stack Software Engineering Intern @ Carbon Five
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
● Met with startup founders daily to discuss features, suggest designs and explain agile development
● Gave advice during scrum meetings and strategized methods for solving software issues in a short-cycle, iterative, and agile environment
● Developed credit card and personal information authentication system using JavaScript, ReactJS, Redux and Ruby on Rails for Swell Investing’s stock trading platform. 
● Followed TDD in creating socially responsible investment system, achieving 90%+ code coverage writing 60+ unit tests utilizing Jest, Enzyme and RSpec.
● Developed the user interface and the PDF generator for a React app that gets parents and kids together for an agreement about being responsible with new technology. Increasing visitors by 30%.
● Re-engineered front end and implemented Instagram feed to internal company dashboard using Sass, Ruby and Sinatra, increasing employee participation in all three offices by over 40%.
● Added features to an internal company Slack Bot using the Ruby Slack Client library, improving employee timekeeping

### Full Stack Software Engineering Intern @ HP
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Corvallis, Oregon Area
● Built, unit tested and added features to three Ruby on Rails web applications in 11 weeks using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap, RSpec, and Git in a Linux environment
● Wrote unit tests with RSpec and built the user interface with HTML and Sass for a customer-facing social
media web app that received acclaim at demos in New York and Portland and The QVC Shopping Network.
● Designed automated tests using RSpec that measured the grading accuracy of a test grading app for local Oregon college students. Resulting in 0 bug reports after release.
● Gave advice during scrum meetings and strategized methods for solving software issues in a short-cycle, iterative, and agile environment
● Participated in usability testing events with cognitive walkthroughs


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/raymondferrell
- Website: https://raymondferrell.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/Raymond427?tab=repositories

---
Source: https://flows.cv/raymondferrell
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/raymondferrell/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22