• I'm a Full-Stack Software Engineer, Author, Designer, and Filmmaker 💻✍🏼📐🎥 • I have 5 years of engineering experience, from working at San Francisco startups; to designing & building my own foreign-language journaling software platform that now serves over 15,000 users and generates recurring subscription...

2022 — NowGoogleSoftware Engineer

2022 — Now

Sunnyvale, California, United States

2018 — NowJournalySoftware Engineer & Designer

2018 — Now

San Francisco Bay Area

Led visual and technical design, architecture, engineering, and project management of the entire platform that delivers value to over 15,000 users and generates recurring subscription revenue.

As an Open-Source project, I collaborated with just one core teammate and managed/supported over a dozen contributors.

Key technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, Apollo, Prisma, Nexus, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Stripe, Serverless, AWS.

Highlight Projects: Notification System, Subscription Payments Infrastructure (Stripe), Managed Queue Service for handling daily email notifications (AWS & Serverless), Image Thumbnailing Service (S3, Cloudfront, Lambda, Serverless).

Find all the code at github.com/Journaly/journaly !

2014 — NowRobin MacPhersonContent Creator & Filmmaker

2014 — Now

I've been creating content about language learning and lifestyle since 2014, primarily through videos and short-documentary film content on YouTube @ youtube.com/c/RobinMacPhersonFilms

I also wrote, designed, and self-published a book called How To Maintain Languages in 2018 which can be found @ robinmacpherson.co/shop

I post short-form content and photos on Instagram @_robinmacpherson

2021 — 2021StyleSeatSoftware Engineering Team Lead

2021 — 2021

San Francisco Bay Area

As Team Lead of this brand new team while also acting as Scrum Master and the primary code contributor, I was heavily involved in day-to-day team management, velocity optimization, and had constant collaboration with my product owner and team stakeholders.

Collaborated on technical design and architecture of key projects.

Led and mentored one junior engineer closely.

2019 — 2021StyleSeatSoftware Engineer

2019 — 2021

San Francisco Bay Area

Collaborated heavily on team management as Scrum Master for two quarters.

Led technical design and development of a brand new service for rapid development & iteration of landing pages (Next.js, React.js, and Serverless Framework integrated with our internal AWS Cloud Infrastructure).

Worked extensively on full-stack projects across many areas of the codebase (JavaScript & React / Python & Django).

Successfully introduced and drove the effort to bring TypeScript to the codebase.

Participated extensively on Frontend & Backend Chapters.

Education

2009 — 2014

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Bachelor of Arts - BA

2009 — 2014

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Bachelor of Arts - BA

2009 — 2014

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Education

Bachelor of Arts - BA

Bachelor of Arts - BA