# Sidney Packer

> Creating and loving | Ex-Palantir

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

UCF Computer Science '20

## Work Experience
### Forward Deployed Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2021 – Present | New York, New York, United States
• Developed data engineering and machine learning solutions used to detect financial crime
• Developed optimization model and application for planning material production in the oil and gas industry 
• Conducting algorithm and data structures interviews to hire industry forward deployed software engineering candidates

### Global Markets Analyst @ Goldman Sachs
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | United States
• Worked on the Ledger Technology team developing APIs and real-time solutions for client financial markets transaction data using Spring and Apache Kafka
• Developed real-time client ledger  monitoring dashboard using TypeScript, React, and Spring Boot.
• Introduced and deployed a Kafka Schema Registry application used for delivery of intra-day reporting data to prime brokerage clients

### Software Engineering Lead @ Pogbet
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California
• Designed active prediction system architecture using Spring (Java), PostgreSQL, and AWS ECS/EC2
• Conducted Data Structures and Frontend Engineering interviews to hire 4+ Software Engineers during angel and seed funding rounds
• Managed engineering efforts in delivering Better's React Native MVP and onwards to the Apple App Store
• Architected Better's live prediction data streaming using GraphQL
• Designed Better's proprietary prediction management application used by internal content curators

### Securities Summer Analyst @ Goldman Sachs
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
• Worked on the Ledgers Engineering team developing transaction anomaly detection rules using Apache Spark.
• Responsible for migrating legacy data processing instances to Spark, contributing to $4 million/year in savings.
• Improved task dependency graph manager for end-to-end testing of anomaly detection rules.

### Software Development Instructor @ Codecademy
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Led 8-week NodeJS API development courses containing 50+ students, teaching JavaScript and SQL
• Instructed and assisted Codecademy Pro learners throughout frontend JavaScript and React development exercises. 
• Reviewed and graded learners’ front end and back end development projects

### Software Engineering Intern @ HubSpot
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Worked as a part of the Live Chat team developing real-time chat and inbox software using React and PubNub.
• Created ability for agents associated with a particular inbox to be discovered and appropriately assigned messages.
• Developed feature to asynchronously fetch assigned message responders on the fly from a chat widget using Redux.
• Collaborated with Live Chat Backend team in developing and persisting a chat widget away mode state.
• Utilized Enzyme to develop chat/inbox component unit tests and Selenium to create application acceptance tests.

### Web Application Developer @ University of Central Florida
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Orlando, Florida Area
• Refactored and tested critical NodeJS LMS assessment API route, improving readability and developer productivity.
• Helped lead effort in architecting and implementing assessment review feature to UCF LMS using React and NodeJS.
• Created ability for Obojobo-Next front end assessment editor to accept custom XML input from instructors to be rendered into corresponding React assessment components and saved to PostgreSQL database.

### Software Engineering Intern @ ESPN
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Bristol, CT
• Collaborated with Consumer SWE and API teams to maintain/build features and resolve preexisting issues across ESPN.com and the ESPN app, including NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA Football, ESPNU, and ESPNFC pages and mobile web views.
• Resolved critical publishing issues throughout ESPN.com front page article editorial tool using React

### Web Application Developer @ University of Central Florida
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Orlando, Florida Area
• Lead development for a new UCF Canvas course creation web application using Instructure’s Canvas API that eliminated creation wait time and parsed uploaded CSV files, enabling batch course creation, using Python.
•  Aided early development of Obojobo Next, a new React/NodeJS take on UCF’s award winning LMS.
• Contributed to improvement of front end document engine test coverage to over 90% using Jest and Enzyme


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of Central Florida
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23