# Spencer Hitchcock

> Staff Software Engineer at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/spencerhitchcock

Full stack software engineer with a passion for communities

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Redwood City, California, United States
Working on infrastructure for CZI's education projects. 

Lead building a product that installed free (Open Educational Resources) textbooks and materials into school's Learning Management Software instances. Curriculum Sync

### Senior Software Engineer @ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | Redwood City, CA

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park, CA
Engineering lead to research, build and launch a Q&A-style forum for technical integration questions, enabling self-service for Facebook's 1,000,000+ Developers at F8 2019 (React/Relay/GraphQL, Hack/PHP).

Created review system to verify business accounts through automated contract flow, unblocking App Review for hundreds of thousands of Facebook apps in time for F8 2018 (ThinkSmart API, EchoSign API, Hack/PHP).

### Full Stack Engineer @ Sinfonía por la Vida
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Quito, Ecuador
Built a custom donations platform enabling donors to buy individual notes in a musical score. Note-by-note, raising > $116,000 for the Non-Profit (Jison, MIDI.js, Vextab, PHP, SQL, PayPal API).

### Full Stack Engineer @ Camp Four Creative
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Built flight search engine for client, enabled front-end by enabling data injection from custom back-end (Angular.js).

### President @ Berkeley Student Cooperative
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Oversaw complete rewrite of corporate bylaws,  bringing the 82-year-old organization into compliance with California Non-Profit Corporate code.

Successfully ran a campaign to vote in the new bylaws.

Oversaw the adoption of a $10,000,000 yearly budget for the 1300-member student-ran organization.

Trained students to function as Board Directors of an organization with $80 million in assets

Spoke at public events, before Alumni and before City of Berkeley Politicians.

### Android Developer @ Monkey Inferno
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built Avatar-based chat application for Android, launched the app with 200-500k downloads in first three months, trended top-10 beon UK Twitter.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Cognitive Science & Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/spencerhitch
- Website: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~hitch

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Last updated: 2026-03-22