# Suya L. > Software Engineer | Full Stack | Backend, with a dash of DevOps | Platform Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/suya If you need a full stack or backend engineer with a deep knowledge of the Ops side, I’d love to connect. I’m a versatile software engineer with a consulting background that’s taken me across healthcare, e-commerce, and telecom, and through every layer of the software development cycle. From frontend to backend, infrastructure, and DevOps, I’ve had the unique opportunity to jump into complex problems headfirst, quickly learn new tools and methodologies, and deliver impactful solutions for companies of all sizes. Consulting taught me how different businesses succeed on their own terms, and gave me the skills to adapt fast, communicate clearly, and collaborate across disciplines. Instead of being a “jack of all trades,” this breadth has given me a strong technical foundation and deep empathy for what it takes to build, ship, and maintain great products. At the core of my work is a commitment to integrity and delivering the greatest possible value, whether that means tackling hard technical challenges, mentoring teammates, or aligning engineering efforts with real business goals. I’m most energized when I’m solving problems that make people’s lives easier and building products that put the user first. Outside of work, you’ll usually find me trying out a weird bouldering problem, trying not to overfeed my cat, reading a good book, or planning my next trip. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Checkr, Inc. Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Abbott Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Alameda, California, United States Developed and maintained a fast, scalable e-commerce web solution (NextJS, React) resulting in a more efficient, user-friendly shopping experience and increased customer satisfaction. • Enabled autonomous website management (Contentful), streamlining content updates for marketing teams, and migrated off Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). • Automated pre-renewal emails (MJML, Azure Functions, SendGrid, Braze), eliminating surprise charges and addressing a critical customer experience gap. • Achieved significant cost savings—reducing platform expenses by tens of thousands—by consolidating AEM tenants. ### Lead Software Engineer @ Thoughtworks Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Mobile Engineer | Global Healthcare Leader | Jul 2023 - Aug 2024 • Developed a React Native Mobile App enabling customers to make informed lifestyle changes based on continuous glucose sensor data to improve user health and wellbeing. Partnered with product to define an MVP design aligned with timeline and impact goals. • Spearheaded a content traceability solution to address gaps in content promotion, ensuring information integrity and FDA compliance. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Thoughtworks Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Technical Lead | Telus | Apr 2022 - Oct 2022 • Led a 7-person nearshore team to build a self-service web app (React) for product activation/cancellation, reducing call center load and improving customer satisfaction. • Partnered with third parties for seamless integration and collaborated with the PM on a sustainable roadmap. Full Stack Engineer | Technology Giant | May 2021 - Mar 2022 • Contributed to the Developer Platform (Backstage.io) to improve dev experience and streamline tooling. • Collaborated with the Pulumi team to automate infrastructure provisioning, increasing efficiency. Technical Lead/Platform Engineer | Gap Inc | Feb 2018 - May 2021 • Decomposed a monolithic frontend into micro-frontends, increasing scalability and reducing post code freeze deployment times from weeks to hours. • Automated Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for 10+ teams (Groovy), improving deployment frequency and reducing errors. • Maintained the server-side A/B testing platform (F5) for reliable experimentation, enabling data-driven product development decisions. ### Software Engineer @ Thoughtworks Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area DevEx Engineer | Application Performance Monitoring Company | Apr 2017 - Oct 2017 • Transitioned a 7GB monolith to a microservices architecture, improving app scalability and resilience. • Migrated a homegrown build system to TeamCity, reducing build pipeline duration by 4x and significantly improving developer productivity. Full Stack Engineer | Major Tax Company | Oct 2016 - Mar 2017 • Developed a chat-based tax preparation mobile product (Angular 1.5, Ionic) for gig workers (e.g., Lyft, Uber drivers), simplifying a complex tax process. • Developed an internal web app streamlining tax prep and customer assistance workflows for experts. ### Software Design Engineer (Intern) @ Altera Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Toronto, Canada • Assisted in developing and testing an automated flow in Python to convert existing customer hardware designs to benchmark the performance of the central CAD product: Quartus II • Collaborated with different Development Teams to debug performance and functional errors in Quartus II • Created and maintained a benchmark suite to help develop CAD for the newest product line: Stratix 10 • Consistently produced informative yet concise performance updates regarding performance developments of Quartus II ### Summer Research Assistant @ University of Toronto Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | University of Toronto • Contributed to the research paper “Titan: Enabling large and complex benchmarks in academic CAD”, published in FPL 2013 • Prepared existing verilog code from various sources for benchmarking and stress-testing the Versatile Place and Route (VPR) CAD tool • Used Valgrind to profile and check for memory leaks in VPR • Debugged speed and memory issues when VPR was subjected to high volumes of data • Modified VPR code in a thorough and well documented manner ### High School Student Liaison @ University of Toronto Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Toronto, Canada During Reading Week, I politely and enthusiastically telephoned prospective high school students from every time zone in Canada to give them and their parents more information about life at the University of Toronto. ### Instructor @ Kumon Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | Mississauga, Ontario As part of the Clarkson Branch of Kumon in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, I patiently taught students between the ages of 4 and 17 Math and Reading Comprehension ## Education ### Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Computer Engineering University of Toronto ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/suya415 --- Source: https://flows.cv/suya JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/suya/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11