# Victoria T. > Senior Software Engineer | On a mission to #fixhealthcare at Nava Benefits Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/victoriat I’m a software engineer and tech lead focused on building clear processes, supporting teams, and delivering reliable systems. I’ve worked across startups and scale-ups in healthcare, crypto, e-commerce, digital media, and analytics. My experience spans individual contributions, technical leadership, and formal management. I’m passionate about mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, strategic team building, technical planning, and leading with empathy. While I’m always expanding my technical depth, what drives me most is creating environments where people feel supported and able to do their best work. Technical Focus Areas: Frontend: React, TailwindCSS, Next.js, TypeScript, modern state management, design systems Backend: Node.js, NestJS, Django, event-driven architecture Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Kafka, GraphQL, Temporal ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Nava Benefits Jan 2025 – Present Health insurance premiums have risen 3 times faster than wages in the past decade. Employers feel powerless as their employees pay more for worse healthcare coverage. Enough is enough. Nava Benefits is a modern benefits brokerage on a mission to bring high-quality, affordable healthcare to all Americans, starting with the 49% who receive insurance through their employers. By partnering with healthcare and benefits advisors from the country's largest companies, Nava packages their insights, tools, and best practices into a scalable, unified service offering that has helped smaller employers save 8-22% on their benefits plans. ### Technical Lead @ Probably Genetic Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States Managing a team of 5 utilizing AI to help rare disease patients along their diagnostic journey. ### Engineering Manager @ Bitvavo Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands User Team EM, managing a team of 5 responsible for user onboarding, kyc, authentication, authorisation, and user management. Responsibilities: Strategic planning, project management and capacity planning, architecture and technical design, and people and process facilitator and roadmap builder. Tech: Typescript, NestJS, Micro-service architecture, Kafka, Automation and QA, Full-stack development, React, Redux ### Tech Lead @ Bitvavo Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands User team - responsible for user authentication and authorisation, user onboarding, and all things user management including internal tooling. Our main objective is to provide a safe and secure experience for users to manage and trade digital assets in compliance with evolving regulations. ### Software Engineer @ Abcam Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands Software developer during digital transformation. Working User Accounts authentication flows with MIcrosoft Azure, NextJS, and React. Built Internal tooling for mission ops customer support in React, NextJS, Storybook, Serverless, GraphQL, Apollo, DynamoDB, and Kafka. ### Software Developer @ Catawiki Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Frontend engineer on Fulfilment vertical responsible for Bidder/seller flows, payments, and shipping Migrated buy orders pages from Rails to React using functional programing patterns and typescript Improved buyer/seller communication redesigning chat widget on item bidding page Led web side of seller verification features for global KYC regulations to ensure seller payout Documented and worked cross vertically on new seller registration flow Participated in organization wide Frontend Guild meetings to improve developer experience and best practices ### Frontend Software Engineer @ ClearBrain Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Led Frontend technical decisions amongst founding team to deliver a self serve analytics platform Enhanced core features during rebranding such as data syncing connections through Segment, Google Ads, Hubspot and GTM Documented and proposed Frontend best practices and state management using Redux Worked with design team to map user flows and improve core features Pushed towards building a design system and react component library using Storybook. ### Software Engineer - Front-end @ Driver Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Driver is a cancer treatment matching platform. At Driver I collaborated with Front-end team on web and mobile consumer facing apps. I took ownership of the marketing site in which I maintained payment and patient signup flow and supported evolving product offerings. I worked with an international team and contractor across San Francisco, Amsterdam and China for a global PR launch in China and the US. Maintained coding best practices including React, Webpack, ES6, Sass, Flow, and Node.js. ### Software Engineer, Storytelling @ Group Nine Media Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Work with digital media brands under Group Nine Media such as Seeker, Thrillist,The Dodo and Now This. As part of the Product team I worked with designers to build features in Vanilla Javascript, Backbone.js, CakePhp, React and Sass to release and relaunch rebranded sites. ### Front-end Engineer @ Discovery Digital Networks Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA As a front-end Engineer I maintained company tools used to release media content generated daily for various brands under Discovery such as http://animalist.com/, http://revision3.com/, http://sourcefed.com/, Testtube, and DNews. Some of which involved rebranding and launching our consumer facing brand http://www.seeker.com/. I took ownership of the Seeker.com front-end working with a 3rd party CMS. Later acquired by Group Nine. ### Senior Order Management Analyst Assistant @ FireEye, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Milpitas, CA ## Education ### Computer Software Engineering Hack Reactor ### Associate’s Degree in Psychology Evergreen Valley College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/victoriatapia1 - Portfolio: http://victoriatapia.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/victoriat JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/victoriat/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10