# Sutton Cowperthwaite > Software Engineer at Google Location: Portola Valley, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sutton I am full-stack software engineer that excels in finding and implementing unique solutions to software engineering problems. I enjoy understanding and developing functionality and logic behind products. I am friendly, interactive, persistent. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2021 – Present ### Software Engineer @ Gainfully Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 ### Software Engineer @ sweetgreen Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Customer Entitlement Service -Developed AWS Serverless endpoints which connected to SessionM API endpoints to retrieve and redeem user’s entitlements -Created extensive Jest unit, integration, and smoke test for AWS Serverless endpoints to ensure functionality of endpoints -Crafted walkthrough documentation on how to connect a Braze Campaign, with segmentation, to a SessionM campaign to enable cohorting of SessionM offers to customer base -Wrote documentation used my internal and external teams at Sweetgreen to allow migration of user’s data from PostgreSQL database into SessionM database via SessionM internal tooling Customer Verification Application -Revamped local testing workflow via Serverless-Offline packages that mocked DynamoDB, SQS, and SES, to permit completely offline testing ### Software Engineer @ GrowthPhysics Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Constructed Django application to retrieve key Shopify store data via ShopifyAPI package to determine key growth engineering metrics such as life time value and orders Developed PostgreSQL schemas from Shopify data to store data and key relationships between shops, customers, and orders ### Software Engineer @ NepFin Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Newsletter Serverless Application -Constructed AWS Serverless endpoint that automated Weekly Email Newsletter generation, decreasing generation time from hours to minutes -Created Vue deal view page, with date filtration, that generated HTML newsletter or rich text snippets for HubSpot insertion -Constructed deal snippet algorithm through functional programming practices that converted deal object into over 10 unique string snippet combinations -Developed API endpoint that filtered deals from PostgreSQL database by internal and user filters Converted MJML email newsletter template into HTML, with inserted snippets, via Handlebars Brand Profile Dashboard -Developed 9 reusable Vue components that allowed key internal business users full CRUD operational control over 4 unique pages -Applied Vue Composition API for better code organization and reusability -Implemented strict Typescript on project to optimize for scalability and simplify debugging -Created extensive Jest test suite, using Vue Test Utils, with over 85% coverage of statements, branches, functions, and lines Pagination Mixin -Created Vue pagination mixin that allowed user to save table filters, page, and items per page on 6 distinct pages -Synced page, items per page, and selected filters between URL, Vuex state, and UI to allow user to enter parameters via UI or URL Historical Deal Comparison MVP -Leveraged Vuetify component library to create internal dashboard MVP for Historical Salesforce data under tight timeline of 1 week with filters by word search, max or min value, start and end date, and nested deal categories Press Release Scrapper -Developed Python XML scraper that parsed out key attributes of press releases from rss feed and articles via Beautiful Soup into a PostgreSQL database ### Associate Scientist @ Ripple Foods Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA -Developed and guided over many products through various steps of product life-cycle to increase product portfolio of Ripple Foods -Conducted key research into novel technology pathways to further the product and process development of team and Ripple Foods -Initiated on-boarding policies and procedures as a member of the Ripple Foods On-boarding Committee -Created two, and converted one, provisional patents to increase the intellectual property of Ripple Foods ### Food Application Intern @ TerraVia Holdings, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | South San Francisco -Developed a plant-based block cheese that had similar hardness, texture, and mouth-meltability as compared to commercial dairy-based cheddar cheese. -Created and performed various functionality testing on TerraVia products including buffer capacity, gel strength, and emulsion strength. -Trained in Genesis R&D usage including nutrition label creation and ingredient input. ### Computer Hardware Intern @ Gumstix, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Redwood City, California -Developed and tested the hardware and software of a new drone based game, Zyro™ -Prototyped over twenty computer hardware boards on internal design tool Geppetto® including models for Raspberry Pi®, AeroCore, and BeagleBone® -Research and developed hardware designs to add modules to Geppetto® including modules to create Pi HATs and BeagleBone Capes. ### Chemical Engineering Intern @ SinuSys Corp. Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto -Developed an in-depth and extensive table of corticosteroids to create Restora™ Steroid-Eluting Spacer. -Created membranes and tested their properties then obtained important information necessary to start clinical trials -Built an endoscope camera -Presented search engine optimization ideas to help increase web traffic to company site -Sourced thermoplastics used in Restora™ Steroid-Eluting Spacer. ## Education ### Advance Software Engineering Immersive Hack Reactor ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Chemical Engineering University of Colorado Boulder ### Chemistry in Chemistry Foothill College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sutton-cowperthwaite --- Source: https://flows.cv/sutton JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sutton/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01