# Wade Hastings > Tech Lead | Team Lead | Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/wadehastings What led me to a career in software engineering: writing HTML for my MySpace page, playing Pokemon and corrupting my save files with the MissingNo glitch, frantically triaging and fixing viruses on the family computer at 2 in the morning, and learning to program ringtones through trial and error on my Mom's Nokia brick. Today I play a cross functional role leading the development, testing, and deployment of quality software to enterprise grade clients. I work across the stack using Typescript, AWS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Java, Jenkins, Argo CD, Elastic APM, and occasionally React/Redux. ## Work Experience ### Software Team Lead @ Treez Inc. Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area • Lead development, maintenance, delegation, and support of shared services • Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, resolve blocking dependencies, prioritize, and assign tasks for timely project completion. • Perform interviews for candidates of varying experience levels and contribute to selection, onboarding, mentorship, and support of software engineers worldwide. ### Technical Lead @ Treez Inc. Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area • Create and present technical content at biannual tech lead offsite meetings. • Evaluate feature and enhancement proposals, providing SWAG estimates for informed decision-making. • Author and review technical designs, ensuring alignment with project goals. • Collaborate with stakeholders, product managers, and engineers to translate business requirements into innovative technical solutions. ### Software Engineer @ Treez Inc. Jan 2017 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area • Played an integral role building "SellTreez", a robust enterprise application suite encompassing point of sale, inventory management, discount management, ticket calculation, and other modules. SellTreez played a key role in securing series A, B, and C funding and is currently utilized by over 600 dispensaries across the U.S. and processed over 31 million transactions and $2.2 billion in gross receipts in 2022. • Led the development and launched a set of "bridge" services to seamlessly integrate the legacy software with a newly developed in-house, event-driven, multi-store operator first system. ### Technical Account Manager @ Business U Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 • Gathered, uploaded, and managed customer requirements for platform customization and configuration • Performed administrative and user functions such as on-boarding new users and uploading their business contacts • Created workflow processes, service portfolios, and needs assessments per customer requirements. • Developed and provided onsite and online technical training workshops and demos ### Project Marketing Manager @ X2Engine Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Santa Cruz, CA • Collect data for use in the company's marketing materials • Design and implement customer training resources • Analyze and suggest changes to optimize the company's software • Created over 15 videos as well as the webpage for the X2CRM Video Tutorial Library ### QA Automation Intern @ Tuul Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Santa Cruz, CA • Performed daily manual smoke tests for the company • Researched and wrote a proposal detailing various test runners and testing frameworks for the company to use in their E2E testing • Setup and used Velocity test-runner and the Cucumber testing framework to test the company's Meteor web application • Wrote tests in javascript using the WebdriverIO API ### Financial Analyst @ Cityblooms Urban Micro-Farms Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Santa Cruz, California • Developed financial models to show potential customers how they can maximize their ROI when using City Blooms' modular hydroponic gardens • Prepared financial plan for management and investors • Implemented Zoho CRM to organize the company's prospects, leads, and customers ### General Ledger Accounting Intern @ Plantronics Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Santa Cruz, California • Learned and used Microsoft Visual Basic to code custom macros in Excel • Carried out quarter-end search for unrecorded liabilities • Compiled a worldwide journal entry list to help ensure all entries were appropriately reviewed and approved • Built and designed a customizable trended financial report template, allowing users to customize the data they view • Hosted and organized an all hands meeting attended by the whole company • Attended numerous lunch-and-learns with the c-level executives • Automated the merging and manipulation of data in excel ### Tutor @ UC Santa Cruz Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Santa Cruz, California • Tutored 60+ university level students • Performed recruitment speeches to groups of 200+ students • Prepared material and facilitated weekly tutoring sessions • Developed visual models and written study guides to facilitate learning ### Teaching Assistant @ UC Santa Cruz Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Santa Cruz, California • Assisted the professor in Managerial Accounting and Intermediate Financial Accounting • Organized lesson plans • Prepared and lead midterm review sessions for 100+ students • Graded homework and tests • Proctored midterm and final tests ### Reader @ UC Santa Cruz Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Santa Cruz, California • Read student memos and essays • Commented on papers to assist the professor in grading • Checked for grammatical mistakes • Managed to juggle and satisfactorily complete this job while having two other jobs at the same time ### Research Assistant - LEEPS Lab @ UC Santa Cruz Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Santa Cruz, California • Gave recruitment speeches in large lecture halls to groups of 500+ students • 12.5x'd the number of signups per day year over year • Assisted with experiments involving decision making • More at: https://leeps.ucsc.edu/home/ ### Tour Guide and Cashier @ MYSTERY SPOT Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Santa Cruz, California • Directed groups of up to 30 people through the attraction • Drew volunteers from the crowd to participate in demonstrations • Performed a partially scripted, partially improvised routine • Carried out internal control procedures related to cash handling • Provided customer service in a fast paced and diverse environment ### Supervisor @ MYSTERY SPOT Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Santa Cruz, California • Trained and supervised 15 employees • Reviewed tours and surveyed guests for quality control • Copy edited and updated the employee manual ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Global Economics with Emphasis in Accounting University of California, Santa Cruz ### Software Engineering App Academy ### European Studies Freie Universität Berlin ### Associate of Arts (A.A.) in Business - with Honors Cabrillo College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hastingswade --- Source: https://flows.cv/wadehastings JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/wadehastings/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10