# Tim Standen

> Full Stack Software Engineer | Rails | React

Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/timstanden

Experienced Full Stack Software Engineer with a love of solving the complex puzzles encountered by web systems every day. Professional experience in React, Typescript, Ruby, and SQL but always wanting to learn the best tools to solve the problem. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor's degree focused in Computer Science and History from University of Michigan.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Cast Iron Coding
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

### Full Stack Engineer @ Source
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
- Worked in fast-paced startup environment building out systems that simplified procurement of construction materials for projects across the United States
- Designed PostGRES data models and GraphQL APIs capable of storing millions of records and serving thousands of requests a second
- Refactored and Redesigned complex Enterprise UIs written in React to make them cleaner, simpler, and easier for our users.

### Software Engineer @ Snapsheet Inc
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Developed a Cloud-Native, SAAS claims management stack that handled thousands of records a day from many top insurance companies. Development in MySQL, Ruby on Rails, and React
- Converted a  monolithic Web API receiving dozens of requests a second into a REST API web service consisting of several standardized web resources
- Migrated Front End application to request data from a REST API suite in a lazy-loaded fashion. This change boosted page load times from ~20 seconds to 0.5 seconds.
- Designed and implemented tailored solutions to common Web API issues such as asynchronous jobs, multi-record creations, and resource filtering
- Worked in a close team of Developers, QAers, designers, and Project Managers taking an Agile approach to project management.

### Software Developer @ Epic
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Madison, Wisconsin Area
Developed enterprise hospital billing applications using a typescript client, C# server, and Cache database.

Organized design meetings for projects ranging from small fixes, to large application releases, to specific customer requests.

Migrated legacy Visual Basic systems to new .NET infrastructure (C# and typescript)

### Instructional Assistant, EECS 493 @ University of Michigan
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Organized office hours and led weekly discussion sections for EECS 493: Intro to User Interface Design, a senior level CS course focusing on HCI and web development.

Designed class projects focusing on usability, responsive web-design, and javascript frameworks.

### Grader @ University of Michigan
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Ann Arbor, Michigan
Graded student projects for EECS 402 (Introduction to C++) by writing original test cases and developing grading rubrics.  Wrote python scripts to improve work efficiency.  All work done in Bash terminal.

### Research Assistant, University of Michigan Nuclear Engineering Department @ University of Michigan
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Worked under Prof. Kim Kearfott on the Radiation Weather Station, a sensor network collecting weather and radiation data for use by scientists and the public.

Prototyped low-cost Auxiliary Stations connected over the internet to a central database, for use in public schools throughout Michigan.

### Law Library Stacks Assistant @ University of Michigan
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Ann Arbor, MI


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Michigan
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor's degree in History
University of Michigan
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tim-standen-6bb4b393

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Source: https://flows.cv/timstanden
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/timstanden/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22