# Robert Basso > Senior Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/robertbasso Graduate of Northeastern University with a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science. Outside of engineering, I’m passionate about Ultimate Frisbee and discovering new music. I also enjoy snowboarding, rock climbing, following the NBA, and staying current with emerging technologies. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ ID.me Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ ID.me Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Los Angeles, California, United States At ID.me, I led key initiatives across backend infrastructure and frontend experiences. I built an internal health check library with out-of-the-box support for Redis, Postgres, and ElasticSearch, along with a flexible system for app-specific diagnostics. I refactored the Browser Extension API to improve offer matching logic and enhance the customer experience. On the identity side, I developed a modular Address Review interface used by dozens of partners, handling complex state and API interactions with functional React components. I also reworked our Affiliate Ingest pipeline to improve reliability and maintainability, reducing failures and streamlining data flow across the system. ### Software Engineer @ SilverBills Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Costa Mesa, California, United States At SilverBills, I focused on performance, security, and internal tooling. I played a key role in securing SOC 2 compliance by implementing CSRF protection, automating test suites, and upgrading the app to Rails 7. I improved overall system speed by optimizing SQL queries and refining join logic, leading to significantly faster page loads. I also built features that made life easier for admins—richer dashboards, document previews, and streamlined notifications. On the SEO front, I added canonical links, breadcrumbs, and dynamic meta updates to boost discoverability and improve organic traffic. ### Emergency Medical Technician @ American Medical Ambulance Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Costa Mesa, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ PatientsLikeMe, LLC. Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States At PatientsLikeMe, I worked across microservices and UI to deepen user engagement. I enhanced the GraphQL-powered newsfeed with keyword search, smart friend suggestions, and scoring logic. I created an onboarding “Quickstart” flow to help new users connect faster and designed a genome data interface with real-time visuals and Wikipedia integration. I also mentored interns and collaborated across teams on projects involving Rails, React, ElasticSearch, and Salesforce. ### Software Engineer @ Dollarship Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area Dollarship is a mobile app loyalty platform that awards scholarships, student debt relief and 529 Plan savings, weekly, through engagement with our retail, restaurant and brand partners. ### Software Engineer @ Cannonball Corporation Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, Mass Cannonball has set out on a mission to inspire users to fall in love with email again by organizing their inboxes in a highly visual way, separating important communication (purchase receipts, emails from friends, etc.) from leisure email (daily deal, subscriptions and newsletters). ### Ruby on Rails apprentice @ Launch Academy, Inc Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 An intensive ten-week web development programs where I had the opportunity to learn elements of both front and back end development. Technical topics included Ruby, Rails, HTML, ERB, Javascript, Git, Sinatra, Object Oriented Design, RSpec testing and more. Moreover, I was trained in working alone, in pairs and as parts of small teams to simulate possible working roles I may encounter in a career as a developer ### International Student Advisor @ Northeastern University College of Professional Studies Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Northeastern pre-matriculation program where qualified students were offered deferred admission on the stipulation that they successfully complete their first semester abroad in one of several locations. My roles as an International Student Advisor included planning excursions for students, which ranged from movie nights to city wide scavenger hunts, checking in on students and making sure they were in good physical and mental states, providing advice about academics, athletics and life in general at NEU, and tutoring students in Calculus upon request ### Tegrity Recording Technician @ Northeastern University Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 New Northeastern program (Tegrity) for recording and uploading classes to students in the class who wanted to review or those taking it online. My duties included setting up audio and video recording equipment to the Professors specifications, checking recordings to make sure all streams were functioning well and were high quality, debugging errors during the setup process, of which there were many during the first few months of the programs release, and documenting errors/best practices so people who came after could benefit from our early struggles ### IT & Infrastructure CO-OP @ Arrowstreet Capital Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Spent six months working in the IT and Infrastructure department at Arrowstreet Capital, LLP, an investment firm that manages Global Equity portfolios. My duties included writing command prompt scripts for large data migrations, installing new hard/software to required parties throughout the company and solving a myriad of smaller issues in programs such as Microsoft Excel, Google Crome, and general Microsoft Systems issues (i.e. printers spooler bugs, monitor display errors, etc.) ## Education ### Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Mathematics Northeastern University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/robertbassoiii - GitHub: https://github.com/RBIII - GitHub: https://github.com/robbasso --- Source: https://flows.cv/robertbasso JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/robertbasso/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31