# Tommy York > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/tommyyork ## Work Experience ### Lead Software Engineer @ Blended Sense Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Picked up a legacy CRUD application that lacked documentation, observability, error reporting, and modern deployment practices. Migrated the codebase to contemporary platforms (Heroku, Netlify), upgraded seriously outdated modules, rewrote portions of the code, and added logging tools and observability. Began a rewrite using NextJS, Vercel, and GraphQL, but caught a serious case of COVID, so I helped the team vet and hire a new development team as I take a sabbatical and deal with long covid. ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States L4 SWE on a Google Silicon EngProd team. Used Typescript, Python, C++, and Java for a set of applications for hardware engineers to remotely develop and test custom silicon on development boards. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Cat Person Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area Lead software engineer on Cat Person, reporting directly to the CEO, brought on to help build out site from conception to launch, and continue to support post-launch. The site was written in TypeScript, and was a Gatsby application deployed and hosted on Netlify. Cat Person used Sanity as its CMS + its Typescript integration. For logging + monitoring, Cat Person used Sentry and LogRocket. Cat Person used Shopify as its ecommerce backend and a Shopify plugin called Recharge to support recurring transactions. ### Software Engineer @ American Express Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area Mid-level engineer on 3-person team, building websites serving small business and corporate card options for prospective international customers in the UK, Canada, Australia, Mexico, France, Japan, and Italy. • Designed and developed core components of the primary React / Redux application and corresponding Node / Express / GraphQL-based backend. • Ownership over multiple components, including a higher-order components for custom performance tracking on images, as well as a tool tip. • Developed GraphQL schema for text rendering for new enterprise page. • Identified and fixed multiple production bugs. • Developed a tool to generate GraphQL queries from backend data and released this tool as an NPM module. ### Associate @ Pluris Valuation Advisors LLC Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | New York, NY Role primarily involved valuing interests in closely held operating companies, private equity funds, and hedge funds, primarily for gift and estate tax purposes. This involved analyzing company financials, interviewing company management, building financial models, conducting economic research, and writing and editing valuation reports. ### Associate @ FMV Opinions, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Responsibilities largely similar to those at Pluris, described above. ### Research Analyst @ OnPoint Analytics, Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Emeryville, CA Developed financial models and statistical analysis from complex datasets for expert testimony in class action. Used a range of tools, including Stata and Python (using the data analysis library Pandas). ### Vice President of Finance @ Berkeley Student Cooperative Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Berkeley, California Redesigned procure-to-pay processes and periodic vendor review for over $3mn in annual spending on food, supplies, and service contracts, designing reporting relationships and new positions to implement purchase management. Personally led a three-person team in completing the $10mn FY 2012-2013 budget when the organization's accountant took temporary leave. ## Education ### BA in East Asian Languages and Cultures - Chinese University of California, Berkeley Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 ### BS in Business Administration University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tommyyork --- Source: https://flows.cv/tommyyork JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tommyyork/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22