# Samuel L. > Senior Software Engineer @ Tesseract Ventures Location: Rogers, Arkansas, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/samuell I like writing boring code with the Principle of least Astonishment. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Tesseract Ventures Jan 2023 – Present | Springdale, Arkansas, United States Led the strategic migration from AngularJS to Next.JS with TypeScript, resulting in a 20% improvement in Lighthouse performance scores and a significant reduction in type-related errors. • Overhauled the existing JavaScript GraphQL server to an ASP.NET Core Web API, adopting the DAO (Data Access Object) design pattern eliminating type-related errors and delivering a 178% performance improvement by offloading resource-intensive frontend computations to the server and optimizing the calculation algorithm. • Enhanced database efficiency by using C# LINQ, achieving a 65% improvement in query speeds by eliminating the need for expensive subqueries. • Spearheaded the adoption of Storybook, facilitating seamless collaboration between designers and developers, expediting the identification of design issues, fostering the development of modular components and accelerating product time-to-market. • Streamlined the CI/CD pipeline by automating tests, builds, and deployments using Google Cloud Platform, GitHub Actions, and Docker, targeting Google Cloud Run. ### Senior Software Engineer II @ AcreTrader Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States Built a geospatial mapping and portfolio management tool, driving user count from 0 to 160k overall users with 44k monthly active users within 18 months. • Developed enterprise features from scratch, resulting in a growth of enterprise customers from 0 to 110 and generating an annual recurring revenue of $180k within 6 months. • Implemented a mechanism for enterprise customers to contribute and share data sets, resulting in 1,300 shared entries. • Constructed an enterprise dashboard for portfolio management tailored to paying land professional customers. • Improved development workflows by integrating linting and formatting rules, creating geospatial and MapBox utility functions and simplifying the Redux state. • Implemented API routes for user management using Django Rest Framework. ### Software Engineer II @ Walmart Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Bentonville, Arkansas, United States • Improved the React Electrode application performance by 170% by implementing table virtualization and infinite scrolling for efficient data management. • Redesigned the single input queries to multi-input to allow users to search up to 50+ timelines at a time, significantly increasing productivity. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Walmart Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Worked with 7 other iterns to build an AI-based chatbot that can take a natural language input from users and return the requested planogram, assortment, product performance visualizations, and reports from the JDA Space Planning Category Knowledge Base (CKB). The project involved the creation of a user interface using React.Js and React Native and back-end processing using SQL, Spring Boot, websockets, and Rasa. ### Research Assistant @ University of Arkansas Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Fayetteville, Arkansas Area Worked with the office of education reform to develop ARTeachers.org, a website utilizing React.Js, Redux-Thunk, Google Firebase, and Express.Js. The purpose of the web app is to provide a convenient way for teachers to apply for teaching positions and for districts to list available teaching positions. ### Software Engineer Intern @ J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Lowell, Arkansas Worked on the Firestone and Shipper 360 team as a mobile intern. The purpose of the applications were to help the company know where the truck load is using Google and Esri maps and manage load orders. Responsible for developing the applications with React Native and Redux-Saga and creating unit tests using Jest.Js. ### Freelance Programmer @ Team Direct Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Rogers, Arkansas Developed a template website for companies to advertise their products from Walmart.com. The website utilized React.js, Redux-Sagas, and Google Analytics. ### Coding Mentor @ Nerdies Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Fayetteville, Arkansas Area Mentor for the Minecraft Development sessions and a video game development session. Taught kids programming with Kotlin through Minecraft modding and video game development aspects with Unity. Responsible for helping create lesson plans for the Minecraft Development sessions and keeping the youth engaged in both sessions. ### Electronics Associate @ Walmart Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Rogers, Arkansas Responsible for making sure the customers feel comfortable, helping them find what they needed, helping them set up their phone services, and maintaining the sales floor and backroom. ### Assistant To The Director @ University of Arkansas Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Kimpel Hall at the University of Arkansas Worked at the Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies department. Was responsible for organizing events, managing the website, and updating and gathering information on the international students at the University of Arkansas. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science University of Arkansas Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ### Rogers High School Jan 2011 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/samuelle107 - GitHub: https://github.com/samuelle107 - Website: https://samuelle.me --- Source: https://flows.cv/samuell JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/samuell/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22