# Todd Detweiler > Software Engineer Location: Tacoma, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/todddetweiler Experienced Software Engineer who can code end to end features. Experienced in managing relationships between product, data, and engineers. Skilled working with business to get viable, iterable features planned and implemented. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ WorkStep Jan 2024 – Present ### Engineering Manager @ Palmetto Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 Lead of an engineering team fluctuating between 3-6 engineers as a manager and lead engineer building out requirements, engineering tasks, and implementation through solo and pair programming sessions. Accomplishments: - Delivered multiple high visibility features to stakeholders on original planned timelines - Maintained team velocity through multiple transitioning product owners and priorities - Key player in identifying and solutioning bugs to reduce tech support tickets by 65% over 6 months - Regularly referred to as an accountable engineer with exceeding expectation peer feedback. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Palmetto Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Technical lead of a large scale project that revamped the sales pipeline. Accomplishments: - Started and drove scheduled syncs between two engineering teams to build out a quarter long project. - Built out expansive documentation, recordings, and flowcharts for 100+ people working with the project. - Primary engineering overseer of the months long beta, working with product to investigate, iterate and implement user feedback - Identified two SQL queries (using New Relic) that were responsible for taking 80% of all database consumption time and reduced them to 5%. ### Software Engineer @ Palmetto Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Main contributor to a new API created for internal and external customers. Integrated with many 3rd party APIs and refactored existing legacy code into more reusable and documented functions. Accomplishments: - Built out a new permission scopes system to support entity ownership within the new API - Discovered two long outstanding nested bugs that produced invalid data and patched - Challenged the status quo with sprint planning and introduced ideas (pre planning grooming, breakout rooms, etc) to drive the overall time from the 6 hours it was taking to roughly 2. - Started and Drove biweekly engineering happy hours to build culture and community. ### Full Stack Developer @ iFit - fitness technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 - Developed microservices on AWS Lambda using Typescript. - Developed, tested, and maintained a service and algorithm to scale workout difficulty using recent heartrate data. - Worked on algorithm improvements by logging metrics and improving a qualitative reporting tool to capture pain points. Worked with product to document improvement points with captured data. - Built and maintained a lightweight microservice managing in workout notifications on top of PostgreSQL. Verified fast response times through optimization points and load testing. Implemented and supported language translation through another internal microservice. ### Software Engineer @ WorkStep Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Full stack engineer working on a SQL database, Python backend with Webapp2 framework. Client side split between React/Redux and Backbone. Took ownership of many of the 3rd party API integrations (ex: resume parsing, Outlook calendar integration, customer success messaging tools), building out our communications interface, and owning several full flight features from the DB to client side. ### Web Development Manager @ Searchlight Solutions Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 I worked as a full-stack developer with a range from AWS management to HTML/CSS/SASS. Some of my responsibilities and projects have included: - Coding projects in javascript, PHP, node.js in order to fulfill the business requirements. - MySQL and Aurora database admin - Git admin of company hosted GitLab server - AWS management with creating new nodes, deploying new production code on elastic beanstalk, lambda functions, and keeping our s3 buckets and CDN's updated. - Working with a small team of developers and splitting up projects into subsections of development. - Enhancing the capabilities of our in-house web reporting tool built on a PHP MVC framework that pulls live data from an Aurora Database and manipulated with client side javascript code. - Building new websites for clients from the ground up as static websites or with a MVC framework dependent on the business needs ### Web Developer @ Searchlight Solutions Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Working in back-end and front-end web development assisting the company's online marketing needs and developing reporting tools. -Developing Javascript and PHP tracking methods to track and store data that helps increase company conversion rates. -Developing and maintaining a powerful reporting portal to display and present the collected data in useful ways. -Working with and exploring new technologies in Amazon Web Services, Javascript, and jQuery in order to increase efficiency and improving the cost/benefit state of our services. ### Test Automation Intern @ Veeva Systems Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 -Developed and ran scripts designed to test the functionality of Veeva's CRM platform. Built the scripts in Jscript using the program Test Complete. - Personally created an extensive automation suite to test the language locale for the product(formating/calender/etc for other cultures and styles) - Ran weekly tests on each development build running multiple virtual machines. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science University of Puget Sound ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/todddetweiler --- Source: https://flows.cv/todddetweiler JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/todddetweiler/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22