# Riley Alsman

> Software Engineer at Square

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rileyalsman

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Square
Jan 2021 – Present

### Software Engineer IV @ Charles River Analytics
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineer III @ Charles River Analytics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, Massachusetts

### Software Engineer II @ Charles River Analytics
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Instructor - JavaScript & Web Development @ First Step Coding
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area

### Full Stack Engineer @ Jaqen
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
Real-time student assessment and learning management platform with a focus on empowering teachers to take control of their classroom.

• Created a real-time teacher and student clients by integrating Firebase's event system with Redux reducers to handle all real-time interactions
• Built a dashboard for teachers to monitor student progress during an assessment in real-time including visualizations and code block formatting
• Designed and implemented a dual database system using Firebase for real-time interactions and PostgreSQL for other data allowing for better scalability and separation of concerns
• Built migrations between the real-time noSQL database and a PostgreSQL database

### Software Engineer @ Smart Notes
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
Note taking application to help readers remember relevant information by having identical words share a single note

• Derived analytics from users’ text corpus using natural language processing (NLP) through third-party tools
• Built NLP analysis from scratch to get word and phrase occurrences by traversing the Neo4J database
• Used Material UI to create a clean and intuitive block based user experience employing UX/UI best practices and rapidly prototype.

### Co-Founder @ Windrush
Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 | New York
Windrush makes it easy to tell a story with data as online interactive reports with live updating visualizations.  As a founder at Windrush, my role was to support our fantastic customers as well as develop opportunities for Windrush in new markets!


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Molecular Biology
Skidmore College
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013

### Software Engineering Immersive in Computer Software Engineering
Hack Reactor
Jan 2018

### The Loomis Chaffee School
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009

### The Nueva School
Jan 1995 – Jan 2005


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rileyalsman

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Last updated: 2026-03-29