# Vincent S. > Software Engineer, Next.js / React TypeScript / JavaScript + Ruby on Rails Developer, Ed Tech-oriented Physics Teacher, and Group Facilitator Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vincents I'm a full-stack software engineer with over 8 cumulative years of coding experience, including both modern web applications at CommonLit and Red Jester, as well as real-time hardware control systems as a physics researcher at the University of Virginia. I'm passionate about building products that engage people and uplift their lives, be it personal or professional. Building connections is my jam, whether it's between electrical signals and beautiful visualization of data, or between humans of different backgrounds. ## Work Experience ### Lead Software Engineer @ Tort Experts Jan 2026 – Present Led execution and rollout of production websites from a legacy CDN to Vercel, reducing alert noise by 50–70% and improving deployment stability. Mentored and managed 2 new software engineers to most productive sprint cycle in only 2 months Reformed and created documentation, code-review, and communication norms for web team ### Javascript Engineer @ Tort Experts Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 Redesigned and streamlined continuous integration system, decreasing deployment times by 70%. Implemented Sentry.io monitoring throughout full-stack application and tripled (3x) unit and E2E testing coverage Maintained Python FastAPI backend as part of full-stack application tool that decreased average time to create lawsuit lander pages from 38 min to 6 min (factor of 6.3x) Responsible for maintaining contract between app and Python API for data processing Led workshops and seminars to train and onboard engineers and product managers ### Full-stack Developer @ SF Civic Tech Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Optimized Playwright End-to-End (E2E) tests to work with React routed pages Implemented testing 2FA with Playwright, on Routed project Set up frontend testing with Storybook on Compass project Designed backend data architecture fetched with React Query on Next.js ### Junior Software Engineer @ CommonLit Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Built backend routing and controllers with Ruby on Rails for featuring content and new online reading assessment system used by over 1.5 million teachers and 5 million students, tested with RSpec / Capybara for system, API, and unit test coverage Constructed and/or upgraded over 30 TypeScript StencilJS web components and TypeScript React components using TailwindCSS and Storybook for protyping atomic components, applying TDD with Vitest / Jest and Playwright Co-led adoption and overhaul of software documentation for the engineering and product team, including onboarding, training, team policies, standard operating procedures, and incident response runbooks Co-led cross-team (product / engineering / design) drive to standardize QA procedures and test accounts with product and user support teams. These accounts include configuration of syncing with third-party API integrations (Google Classroom, Canvas, Clever, and Classlink) across production, staging, and local developer environments Top contributor among 10 non-senior engineers in the last 6 months of the role as measured by pull requests approved and deployed *Role impacted by company-wide cost-saving measures as part of a RIF (Reduction in Force)* ### Software Engineer @ Red Jester Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States Building e-commerce website using Gatsby, React, and GraphQL, hosted on AWS (Cloudfront, Lambda, SNS, S3), integrating Google Calendar API to automate customer-requested appointments from Shef.com API Writing unit tests in Python using unittest and pytest according to TDD principles, which covered both mock boto3 calls and REST API responses, ensuring 100% test coverage on the AWS Lambda backend Designing and implementing CI/CD pipeline with Concourse, automating both AWS Lambda backend and Gatsby frontend deployment ### Bootcamp Prep Instructor @ App Academy Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States Lead discussions about algorithm problems for beginners in computer programming Create presentations about modern JavaScript ES6 syntax A majority of my students have successfully passed bootcamp technical interviews as a result of my teaching tenure. ### Academic Tutor @ AJ Tutoring Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Mateo, California, United States ### Physics Professor @ Diablo Valley College Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Pleasant Hill, California, United States Designed and wrote clear, engaging, interactive student experiences in Desmos and Geogebra for math and physics, resulting in high praise from both students and faculty Taught three courses (120% course load) in one semester, requiring attention to deadlines, management of multiple tasks, and detail orientation, and relieving the department of two faculty leaves of absence. ### Teacher @ Tilden Preparatory School Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Walnut Creek, CA Taught students AP Physics, Calculus, and UC-approved math and physics courses in one-on-one teaching setting. Rated a 4 or 5 out of 5 in teaching effectiveness by over 95% of students Designed formative and final assessments and projects for math and physics, for various educational standards. These have officially been adopted by the school as curriculum requirement ### Graduate Physics Researcher @ University of Virginia Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Charlottesville, Virginia, United States Programmed and optimized front-end software to interface with lab equipment and analyze real-time data using VB and C++. As a result, our team increased our data collection rate by over 50% Wrote grant proposals and Master’s thesis. Secured funding for our project Collaborated with different universities to share research ideas. Implementing a collaborating researcher’s innovative laser stabilization solution allowed us to set up a similar system and increase its stability by a factor of 11 Advisor: Dr. Kevin K. Lehmann ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Atomic/Molecular Physics University of Virginia ### Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Physics University of Toronto ### Software Engineering Intensive in Web Development App Academy ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vincentshuali - Website: https://github.com/canjalal --- Source: https://flows.cv/vincents JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vincents/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05