# Raz Goldin

> Software Engineer

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/raz

Engineering Tech Lead with a track record of sunsetting legacy systems and bringing companies to the top of performance, coding standards, and reliability.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Thumbtack
Jan 2022 – Present | United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Better.com
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineering Manager @ Anheuser-Busch InBev
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York

### Engineering Technical Lead @ Anheuser-Busch InBev
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York

### Lead Full Stack Developer @ Techolution
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Techolution
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York

### Senior Software Engineer, Technical Product Owner @ J.Crew
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York

### Software Engineer @ Ziff Davis
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | New York, New York
Built single page app, Content Management System (CMS) for main property, PCMag.com.

The versatile feature set deprecated 3 legacy CMSs which worked in conjunction.

Built a cohesive user experience including:
• live preview edit/undo.
• rearrangement of article/slots on landing page.
• autosuggest with debouncing and memoization.
• analyzing diff history for version control.
• dragging of article/HTML components.

Technologies:
• Back end - developed data models, serializers, and endpoints with Python Django 1.8-2.
• Front end - built the entire front end-routed single page interface using reusable, draggable, and interactive components with React/Redux, React-router, React DnD.

### Full Stack Developer @ Reelio
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | New York, New York
Designed and executed API architecture, routing/permission logic and building dozens of pages/widgets/graphs per mobile responsive Material Design inspired wireframes.

• Front end: Angular 1.3x-5x+, D3, Angular-Material, UI-partial-routing, LESS, and lo-dash.
• Back end:  Built migrations, validation, and metadata endpoints with Django REST Framework.
• Databases: Postgre SQL/Mongo/Redis/JSON Web-token localStorage.
• Testing: writing 80+ tests in Karma/Jasmine,architecting end-to-end E2E testing w/superagent.
• Workflow: Merge conflicts, cherry picks, and deployment (GitHub) resolving 100s of JIRA tickets.

### Web Development Mentor @ General Assembly
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area
Offered job (Code Mentor) right out of school.

Taught and pair programmed with web/software engineering students after work.

• Covered efficient algorithms, web hosting, and system architecture.
• Troubleshot issues with JavaScript, Ruby and HTML/CSS.
• Built Full Stack single page applications
• Frontend: Backbone, Angular 1.x, D3, ERB, Mustache, React/Native,  Sass/CSS, Bootstrap.
• Backend: Node/Express, Sinatra, Ruby on Rails.
• Databases: SQLite3, Postgre SQL, Mongo.
• Workflow: Github, Trello, ERD, Balsamiq.
• Deployment: Digital Ocean, Heroku, Amazon.

### IT Consultant and VP of Business Development @ Overview Computer Services, LLC.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Greater New York City Area
Providing IT/Web Services to small businesses: building/designing websites, setting up network security/VPNs, data recovery, server maintenance, security, technical support, and configuring automated ticketing/billing software (Connectwise).

### Product Marketing @ CAVA
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012

### Product UX Design/QA Intern @ PandoLogic (formerly RealMatch)
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Manual usability/user-flow testing, bug reporting, and suggesting features and UI.


## Education
### Pursuing Master's in Information Technology: Software Engineering
Virginia Tech College of Engineering
Jan 2018 – Jan 2024

### Certificates in Computer Programming
edX
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Psychology
University of Maryland
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009

### Certificate in Computer Programming
General Assembly
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Certificate in Full Stack Web Development
freeCodeCamp
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Walter Johnson High School
Jan 2002 – Jan 2006


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/razgoldin
- Website: https://medium.com/@razgoldin

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