# 😸Skylar S.

> Software Eng @ Hummingbird | ‎ex-Plaid

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/skylar

Experienced with backend systems in the fintech industry.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Hummingbird
Jan 2023 – Present
Making alerts better, one feature at a time 🚨😌 (Full-stack product engineering)

### Backend Systems @ Pinwheel
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | NYC // SLC
- Designed the Gradual Refresh Ramp feature, unblocking live traffic to our largest payroll provider and improving its Refresh success rate by 13%
- Improved account connectivity persistence rate by 10% through the Delayed Account Disconnect feature
- Synthesized a PRD for the Refresh Overhaul project by facilitating cross-functional discussions, detailing problems and their impact, and roadmapping solutions
- Architected the monitoring_status framework powering the Earning Stream and Verify products
- Eliminated state-related incidents entirely by migrating vital data fields to their appropriate state context in DynamoDB
- Implemented policy configuration TOML creation and parsing, restricting access to sensitive resources company-wide
- Augmented Retool Dashboards to safely fetch sensitive resources while ensuring minimal developer disruption
- Created and tuned DataDog alerts to monitor the health and status of systems affected by the Refresh workflow
- Leveraged crons to auto-purge unnecessary database rows, reducing a table from ~43 million to ~3 million rows
- Reduced the Refresh Planner query’s run time by ~30%, among other database optimizations to ensure scalability
- Documented cross-functional collaboration procedures and prioritization of internal requests

### Software Engineer @ Plaid
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area
- Triaged, implemented, and deployed fixes for existing bank integrations
- Built new extractors for Canadian banks, such as mbna-platform
- Conducted research on Canadian banks to pre-emptively increase coverage before customer asks
- Collaborated with the go-to-market team to ascertain priority and roadmap extractor buildouts 
- Exposed the country_code parameter in the extraction framework to create PagerDuty alerts and Slack notifications for European extractors
- Standardized provincial codes for all Canadian extractors, creating a smoother experience for our end users 
- Revamped the engineering onboarding process for new hires, providing a structured presentation on ‘Extractors 101’

### Web Application, Deployment, and Automation Intern @ University of Utah
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
- Re-wrote and stress-tested scripts that SSH’d into Linux servers to pull metrics and website data
- Created Puppet facts and manifests to maintain, implement and standardize webhosts

### Student Program Lead @ University of Utah
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
- Coordinated monthly re-syncs between 15 to 19 student staff and their mentors to set goals and projects
- Interviewed and evaluated students to fill open positions within the program
- Standardized student program processes by creating documentation, reducing miscommunication
- Automated redundant recruiting processes to allow future scalability of the internship program

### Business Intelligence Intern @ University of Utah
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
- Gathered performance metrics in ServiceNow and visualized them through dashboards and reports
- Automated the collection of data through Python scripts and MySQL queries
- Coordinated groups within Software Platform Services to obtain the necessary metrics

### Software Engineer Intern @ Symantec
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Draper, Utah, United States
- Automated the continuous integration (CI) testing process using Python scripts and Jenkins
- Wrote 300+ unit tests in Python to test both UI (REST API) and CLI functionality of software builds
- Reduced the run time of CI tests by 75% via executing concurrent subprocesses
- Created a dynamic website using Python’s Tornado framework and JavaScript, front-ended with Nginx
- Designed, implemented, and documented a SQLite3 database to hold parsed XML results
- Visualized test results via D3, rendering a layout partition chart denoting skipped, passed, and failed tests
- Assisted with FedRAMP efforts by creating AMIs from VDIs for cloud deployment


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of Utah

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Philosophy; minor in Writing
Washington University in St. Louis


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/skylar03

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Last updated: 2026-03-20