# Vinisha Mittal > Software Engineer @ Etsy Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vinisha ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Etsy Jan 2022 – Present 2025 - present: Executed a high-impact restructuring of Etsy's taxonomy. 2022 - 2024: Led and developed 12+ projects for Etsy’s Fulfillment team with an emphasis on rigorous testing, documentation, and modularity. - Re-wrote the Ship By Date calculator, which determines package ship-by dates for every order at Etsy, to use the Seller's timezone as an input. Used extensive prototyping to understand the impact of this change on package delivery dates and ensured multiple consuming systems correctly read this date as a DateTime with timezone. - Proposed and executed 3 large-scale refactors, including eliminating exception handling in object validation logic (PHP), simplifying large component trees (PHP), and migrating modules to React Toolkit. Results included deleting 10,000+ lines of dead code, resolving production bugs, and increasing test coverage and documentation. - Onboarded and coached 3 junior developers on my team, and facilitated a monthly Coding Best Practices meeting to share knowledge and establish coding standards within the team. ### Software Application Engineer III @ Workday Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Design and develop core features for Student Financials, a management software for university financial administrators and students. Technical Lead + YP Architect: Design solutions for ~5 epics per release with a focus on architectural design and performance. I support a team of 3 developers and PM, lead cross-team issues, mentor new hires and spearhead adoption of YP, Workday’s new proprietary language, for the larger team by leading 2 cross- team API conversions, consulting with other Technical leads, and holding 10+ hours of training sessions. Lead Developer: Drove my scrum team to use Workday’s new proprietary language, YP, to optimize performance for the Charge Aggregation feature. This became one of the company’s largest projects in YP, and launched the effort to move our codebase from a monolith to micro-services architecture. Scrum Master: Lead scrum meetings, taught agile practices, and tracked release progress for a team of 7 during the transition to working from home. ### Software Development Intern @ The Equity Engineering Group Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area Contributed to user dashboard (written in ReactJS) containing multiple risk calculation programs for factory equipment and pipes. - Redesigned the interface to enable users to view unpurchased calculators, run a sample calculation, and purchase new calculators directly from the dashboard via a shopping cart. - Added custom headers to the report PDF generation tool. ### Technology Analyst Intern @ JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area Full-stack development in ReactJS and Java for a wealth management application that provides users with client metrics and integrates with multiple existing applications. Participated in complete project lifecycle, from inception to production, testing and integration to cloud environment. Adhered to Agile development practices. ### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Cornell University Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Ithaca, New York Area TA for CS 2300: Intermediate Web Design and Programming - Co-lead weekly recitations to review course materials, with a focus on the connection between database systems, servers, and hosts. Held weekly office hours to assist students with course projects though collaborative debugging and introduction to to web frameworks and version control software. - Monitored status of course server and handled user and file permissions issues. ### Student Web Developer @ Cornell University Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Ithaca, NY - Edited and updated website for the Hayes Research Group and the Spacecraft Planetary Imaging Facility. - Worked with the Ithaca Sciencecenter to create a website about the solar system for the Carl Sagan Planet Walk. ### Software Development Intern @ Flashstarts, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cleveland, Ohio Worked with multiple area startups on software projects: - Created a fully-automated web app that tracks open internet Title III campaigns using HTML/CSS, PHP, MySQL, and Python web scraping scripts for CFMarket, a crowdfunding aggregator - Developed a Python/JavaScript web server for Parihug, a start-up that produces Wi-Fi-paired teddy bears - Managed retrieval and storage of a user’s personality data generated by IBM Watson, using Swift and Firebase, for NativX, a travel advisor ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Cornell University Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ### High School Diploma Walsh Jesuit High School Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vinisham --- Source: https://flows.cv/vinisha JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vinisha/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22