# Val Booth

> Frontend Platform Team at Patreon

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/valbooth

I am a former Buffalonian and a Rochester Institute of Technology Alumna living and writing code in NYC. I am passionate about JavaScript, tech debt, and web performance, and I am not interested in founder engineering opportunities.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Patreon
Jan 2022 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
Co-lead of under represented genders in engineering ERG (aka Genuine)
- Member of creator facing feature team for 1 year
- Internal transfer to Frontend Platform team, revamping internationalization and working on web performance

### Software Engineer @ Pinterest
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Part of the Web Performance team, writing tooling, monitoring and analyzing real user load times, and part of the projects to increase Core Web Vitals scores for high impact mobile SEO surfaces and create scroll FPS measurements.

### Software Engineer 2 @ Intuit
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, CA
UX/UI Infrastructure team: Writing NodeJS tooling that helped Intuit front end developers across TurboTax and QuickBooks develop in React, along with page load bootstrapping utilities used in those products that used webpack and JavaScript.

### Software Engineer 1 @ Intuit
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, CA
Working with QBO Payments - Invoice Tracking and Payments Managment

### Software Engineer Co-op @ Intuit
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Member of the Consumer Tax Group Payroll team, developing converters in Java that format Quickbooks users’ information to government agency specifications to help small business owners file their quarterly state unemployment insurance or employee withholding. Written converters for 6 state forms and counting.

### Software Development Intern @ Hudl
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Lincoln, Nebraska
Members of the Recruit and Exchanges squads. Worked in an ASP.NET backend and JavaScript front end code base in order to fix bugs, refactor code, and add new functionality. Major projects on the Recruit squad included changing backend code to use a better endpoint for loading profile tape clips, and adding the ability to save athletes to recruiter or team inboxes. Major projects on the Exchanges squad included fixing the styling and making the modal to download original video formats more usable and adding several forms in order to create Exchange Leagues.

### Computer Science Course Grader @ Rochester Institute of Technology
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Grading and providing feedback for weekly or bi-weekly student homework assignments written in C for 20 students of the Mechanics of Programming computer science course.

### Food Service Worker @ Sol's Underground at RIT
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015
Working the cash register, prepping and handling food, cleaning, maintaining safety standards and restocking retail items.

### Summer Intern @ GE Aviation
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Member of the R&D team at the Jacksonville, FL site. Updated and refactored software written in C that tested how the fuel control logic of a small airplane engine responded to changing engine variables. Also designed and developed a PCB and GUI to help the fuel control logic software interface to other low level hardware.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Rochester Institute of Technology

### High School
Tonawanda High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/valbooth
- Portfolio: http://valbooth.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/valbooth28

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Last updated: 2026-03-29