# Vern Jensen

> Senior Software Engineer (frontend) - Autonomy

Location: Henderson, Nevada, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vern

I currently work at Motional, where I work on ML data annotation and discovery tools in the frontend using React and TypeScript. My strengths include cross-team communication and zero-to-finished project ownership.

Previously I worked at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with its Nuclear Cardiology software team (QUAD), where I did C++, web development, and a variety of other things.

Prior to that I was an Indy Game developer and published multiple shareware games, including Midnight Mansion and Insectoid.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Motional
Jan 2024 – Present | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

### Software Engineer (Autonomy - Annotation Tools - Front-end) @ Motional
Jan 2021 – Present | Santa Monica, California, United States
• Owned frontend for multiple projects from start to finish, including an Audio Annotation Tool, a DTB annotation tracking tool, Train Station, and Job Metrics, all written in React using TypeScript.
• Redesigned Traffic Light Detector tool, improving Q/A efficiency by over 5x, and annotation efficiency by at least 2x. Proposed and implemented numerous features to improve accuracy of annotation and user ease of use.
• Proposed and implemented a major revision to our Scene Hunting tool to allow simultaneous playback of multiple camera video feeds at once, all perfectly sync’d, improving Scene Hunting productivity between 2x-6x.
• Made significant improvements to LogMiner, including numerous bug fixes, features, and performance/usability enhancements.
• Voluntarily wrote documentation for LogMiner, ReadMes for many projects, our team's repo, and backend annotation API.

### Software Engineer @ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Jan 2012 – Jan 2021 | Beverly Hills, CA
• Designed and developed a web-based Nuclear Cardiology reporting app using Angular 2.
• Increased speed of the QUAD's floating license server by a factor of 8. Significantly increased stability with bug fixes and stress-testing software.
• Made significant contributions to an iPad version of our flagship product, including massive rendering performance improvements (over 20x), numerous bug fixes, re-architecture of badly written classes, and AWS cloud integration.
• Created MegaTest, automated regression-testing software to perform validation that key metrics do not change beyond expected ranges over time.

### Programmer / Producer / Game Designer @ Self employed
Jan 2003 – Jan 2012
• Designed and developed Midnight Mansion and a user-friendly level builder, which attracted an active fan base who still play the game to this day, over 16 years later. Ported game to SDL and OpenGL.
• Created Midnight Mansion 2: The Haunted Hills
• Created Insectoid, a Galaga-inspired space shooter

### Intern / Programmer								Summer @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005
• Designed and Developed Java GUI front-end for MACOS, a tool for analyzing aberrations in telescopes. Exceeded expectations in both quality and quantity of work completed, with little oversight.


## Education
### Bachelor in Computer Science
California State Polytechnic University
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007

### Glendale Community College
Jan 2002 – Jan 2005


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/raginginverno
- Website: http://www.actionsoft.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22