# Stanley Young

> Senior Software Engineer

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

Software engineer with a passion for automating repetitive tasks and building user-friendly products.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Recurly
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Building the next generation of subscription software at Prive, acquired by Recurly.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Carta
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
•  Led and developed automated reports to improve migration times by 90% when moving companies to the LLC platform using Typescript, React, Python, Django, and PostgreSQL.
•  Built data import REST APIs with a spreadsheet UI to expedite client onboarding by 3.5X using Typescript, React, Java, Spring, and PostgreSQL.
•  Implemented seamless document signing experiences using React and Typescript to save clients 100s of hours each year.
•  Saved $1,000s in lawyer fees by automating SAFEs issuance using Typescript, React, Python, and Django.
•  Optimized law firm dashboard load time by 23% and improved UX with lazy loading using Python, Django, PostgreSQL, React, and Typescript and presented optimization techniques to 30+ engineers.
•  Spearheaded initiative to reduce storage usage by 90% by eliminating duplicated cap table data using Python, Django, and PostgreSQL.

### Software Engineer @ Carta
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
React / Typescript / Javascript / Django / Python / Spring / Java / Docker / Jest / Pytest

### Software Engineer @ Garten (Oh My Green)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Automated inventory metrics using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, HTML5, and CSS3 to generate reports resulting in a 90% decrease in manual data analysis and increasing inventory management by 2x.
• Built custom drag & drop interface to simplify billing operations by 20% using React, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Created product availability tracking and saved $140,000+ annually using Ruby on Rails, React, JavaScript, HTML5, & CSS3.
• Improved loading time for product catalog by 500% through optimizing queries and implementing infinite load using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, React, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. 
• Created sales and labor cost analyzer to forecast overhead costs to save $1,000s annually using React, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Built nutrition upload tool using Javascript, React, Ruby on Rails, and PostgreSQL to gather nutrition data which increased nutritional transparency by 50%.
• Increased client retention by 4.5% by building product tagging using React Native & JavaScript.
• Wrote comprehensive unit tests with Ruby & Rspec resulting in 1.5x less bugs.

### Associate Software Developer @ Internet Brands
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Expanded automation library to verify emails using Python, Gmail API, Selenium, and Robot Framework to guarantee customers are receiving leads and improving time to catch system failures by 3X.
• Automated end to end verification of core business functionalities using Python, JavaScript, Selenium, and Robot Framework, preventing regression and optimizing QA team’s testing time by over 20%.
• Improved automation suites to verify new platform features using Python, JavaScript, Selenium, and Robot Framework, minimizing testing suite runtime by more than 25%.
• Reduced time spent executing automation by 50% through configuring continuous integration with Jenkins.
• Executed full regression and exploratory testing preventing bugs potentially costing company $10,000 per day.
• Created 75+ comprehensive test cases using TestRail based on business and design requirements.
• Tested more than 50 APIs using SoapUI to ensure they met requirements and could handle erroneous input.
• Automated testing for forum site using Robot Framework, Selenium, HTML5, and CSS3 saving QA team 1 week per month in testing time (roughly $120K in savings annually).

### Software Developer Intern @ UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Davis, CA
• Automated data entry with VBA and Excel to extract and load data leading to 90% reduction in data entry time.
• Engineered validation layer using VBA resulting in 90% reduction in manual data validation and increased accuracy of analysis software.
• Streamlined data collection process by creating 35+ front-end forms in JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Built frontend form validation using JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3, preventing data entry errors while reducing server load by more than 50%.
• Implemented backend validation in C# and ASP.NET preventing 2 security exploits and maintain data integrity.
• Scripted CRUD stored procedures using SQL Server on 150+ table database resulting in 50% reduction in data access and update time compared to previous VBA and Excel platform.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of California, Davis

### High School Dipoloma in General Education
James Logan High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01