# Steven Salka > Full-stack product engineer, TypeScript & fractal lover Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/stevensalka 2015 UC Berkeley Graduate 2006 Time Person of the Year I enjoy building cool things that make people's lives better. ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Engineer @ Amplitude Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, CA As a Senior Product Engineer on the Workspaces team, I led the development of numerous product features within Amplitude Analytics, including rich text elements on dashboards, first-class support for metrics, a Slack integration for chart alerts, and the All Content / global search page. ### Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer @ Scale AI Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, CA On platform team, owned the task pipeline and queueing system for assignment of tasks to labelers - used by thousands of labelers & Scale's internal operations team - as well as related admin, task management, and recall systems. ### Full-Stack Software Engineer @ Scale AI Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, CA Implemented data labeling features for 2D & LiDAR applications and improved internal supply optimization tools for QA and operations teams. For fun, increased developer productivity through strong typing of source code. ### Lead Product Engineer @ Podible Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | New York, NY Led full-stack development of the application layer for a podcasting app as the first engineering hire. Guided team on best practices of system design, user experience, project planning, and testing. Implemented responsive UI components for native & web platforms. Architected event sourcing system used to track play statistics and provide data for the company’s analytics pipeline. ### Web Applications Engineer @ x.ai Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | New York, NY Worked within cross-functional teams on the design, implementation, and maintenance of both internal applications and new product features. Enhanced existing web applications and service APIs in order to improve data quality and simplify human-machine interactions. Lead contributor to the Vertical Console, an in-house text labeling tool where AI Trainers provided corrective feedback for Amy & Andrew, the virtual agents x.ai built for scheduling meetings over email & Slack. ### Data Analyst @ Berkeley Center for New Media Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Berkeley, CA Analyzed social media data of 34 political organizations as part of a research team. Identified an emergent class of power users by constructing and querying a graph database with over 85,000 records. Provided weekly updates and a final technical report of the analysis. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Applied Mathematics University of California, Berkeley ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ssalka - Website: http://www.ssalka.io/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/stevensalka JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stevensalka/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29