# Shalin Scupham > Senior Software Engineer @ Parachute Health Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shalinscupham Full-stack software engineer, React & Rails specialties. Software is a team sport. Excited about novel cultural production, tech organizations making positive social impacts, yoga, and urban cycling. Proprietor of the latest online edition of the Lost Horizon Night Market. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Parachute Health Jan 2022 – Present Lessening human suffering at the hands of dysfunctional beraucracy by streamlining durable medical equipment ordering. Currently working with team Destroy The Fax on complex renewals and order review, have spent time on teams building design systems, on-call, interviewing, deprecating ie11, troubleshooting CI pipelines, automating the building and filling out of compliant medical forms, and building apps for iOS/Android. Rails, React, AWS. ### Software Engineer @ Parachute Health Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Windmill Factory Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York, United States Greenfield work leading build out of front end of a WebRTC-driven video chat product that lets you connect with others with spatial audio and live video in a 3d space. Built profiles, social networking features, room admin, Twilio integration, and more, creating a reusable component library in React/Typescript with auth through Firebase, Express, Firestore. ### Consulting Software Developer @ Stride Consulting Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area Wrote code, taught best practices, built new systems, & improved legacy code alongside client developers at some of NYC’s best regarded tech companies. Client work at Stash Financial and Peloton Interactive listed separately below. Major contributor to Stride’s intranet, a bespoke forecasting, BI, and staffing tool built in Vue & Rails. ### Front End Software Developer @ Peloton Interactive Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States •Front end delivery for global marketing site, 500k+ visitors/month. Stack was React, Typescript, GraphQl/Apollo, sitting on top of Rails. •Launched German version of site, internationalization of all copy sourcing. •Performance tuning for massive and complex animations, including prefetching strategy, css bundling, and asset optimization. •Created extensible and reusable components and infrastructure for complex flash sale banner feature. •Advocated for thoughtful extension of test coverage for core logic to facilitate legacy refactorings. •Extensive Contentful and Braze integration work to support A-B testing and internationalization strategy. ### Back End Software Developer @ Stash Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York, United States •Rails work for stock trading app. 4 million users, $1 billion A.U.M. •Extracted advisory service from Rails monolith with Kafka & SQS data flow. •Dropped app load time from 2000ms to 600ms with profiling, query tuning. •Led build of weekly challenge feature, demonstrated value with AB testing linked to KPIs. •Built site reliability dashboards in Looker, Skylight, NewRelic, participated in an on-call schedule. •Coached team on test driven development, agile ceremonies, post-mortems, pairing best practices. ### Hacker in Residence @ App Academy Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area •TA for JumpStart program. Lectured on CS fundamentals, algorithms, CSS, JavaScript, & Ruby. •Contributed to Rails progress tracker app used by thousands of students. •Conducted admissions interviews, assessing applicants for both technical and interpersonal skills for this highly selective bootcamp. ### Content Strategist @ NoFormat Agency Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | NYC •Coordination of copy, design, and developers at boutique web agency. •Led copywriting team for client Think Global School, helped define brand voice. Designed UI for the school’s student application pipeline, +275% boost in applications. Built 200k+ item archive of media. •Coordinator for Design Matters at Art Center website. Bridged NYC designers & off-shore dev team. •Copy writing, art direction, and extensive research for Centaur Properties identity overhaul and website rework. ### Associate Producer, One Show Interactive @ The One Club for Creativity Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | NYC •Chief administrator for award entry CMS, including extensive QA work with near shore developers and automation of data cleaning tasks with Bash scripts. •Designed templates and led microtargeting efforts for email campaigns, performed bi-weekly analytic reports. ### Project Manager @ Promogana Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | NYC + Philadelphia •Managed over 300 brand ambassadors helping with print distribution of millions of pieces of collateral per month for Comcast and RCN Cable. •Automated myself out of a job with computer assisted distribution route creation in Microsoft Maps and Atlas, cutting hundreds of hours of admin time each month. ### Director of Events @ Flux Factory Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Long Island City, NY •Produced arts programming and special fundraising events, including gallery shows and art auctions. •Owned digital content creation, including e-blasts and social postings. Maintained website with Wordpress. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA Hampshire College ### Computer Software Engineering App Academy ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shalinscupham --- Source: https://flows.cv/shalinscupham JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shalinscupham/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31