# Shawna Mattison

> Lead Software Engineer

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shawna

Product- and user-driven full-stack Software Engineer passionate about building valuable products on empathetic and collaborative teams, with craft in mind. Experienced in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Ruby on Rails, Java/Spring, Python/FastAPI,  HTML, CSS. Experienced in cultivating agile and lean engineering culture.

## Work Experience
### Lead Software Engineer @ Movable Ink
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Movable Ink
Jan 2023 – Present

### Owner @ Cookie Smut
Jan 2019 – Present
Built and ran a jewelry and home decor brand on my own including all product design, manufacturing, fulfillment, marketing and e-commerce

### Software Engineer @ Self-Employed
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Software engineering contractor. Full-stack but focusing on frontend and React Native development

### Senior Software Engineer @ The Knot Worldwide
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area
- Full stack web developer on a two-sided marketplace app in Node, React/Redux
- Lead engineer on site-wide rebrand project unifying look and feel over legacy and new stacks
- Modernized testing suite including introducing end-to-end testing using Cypress
- Mentored/taught fellow engineers through lunch and learns, presenting larger scale refactors and 1:1 pairing
- Increased frontend performance by 30 points on lighthouse and increasing accessibility scores to near 100 across the whole site

### Software Engineer @ Managed by Q
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Pivotal Labs
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
- Led teams of up to 6 developers as a team lead developer, driving successful project deliveries and ensuring code quality.
- Collaborated with a diverse range of clients, including Fortune 100 enterprises, startups, and non-profit organizations.
- Built web applications including large service oriented architectures, internal libraries for other developers, and systems deployed to brick-and-mortar retail locations
- Coached clients in modern software practices

### Software Engineer @ Pivotal Labs
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
Full-stack web development with a wide variety of technologies while coaching clients in agile and Extreme Programming practices such as TDD and pair programming.

### Web Developer/ TA @ App Academy
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco
- Lectured on Ruby, Rails, SQL, Javascript, Backbone
- Provided one-on-one assistance and debugging help during class lab

### SaaS Account Associate @ Nuance Communications
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Emeryville, California
As part of the Nuance Enterprise Nina Web team (formerly Virtuoz Inc.):
- continually monitor and optimize the performance of Virtual Assistants that provide world-class customer service and sales SaaS solutions for large to mid-market enterprises
- ensure the continued performance of backend NLU engines and continued accuracy of industry KPIs
- contribute to both the project and managed services stages of project lifecycle
- work with and advise clients on Content, Dialog Strategies and Decision trees during the VA production process
- design call flow and write copy for Interactive Voice Response apps for large enterprise

### Research Assistant @ UC Santa Cruz Linguistics Department
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Santa Cruz, California
Analyzed data for a psycholinguistic syntax experiment on the real-time processing of WH-questions in the language of Chamorro.

Managed team of 6 fellow researchers.

Constructed and conducted complementary syntax experiment, validating the methodologies used on the project.


## Education
### Web Development
App Academy
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014

### BA in Linguistics
UC Santa Cruz
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/shawna
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shawna/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22