# Zana Jipsen

> Software Engineer

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/zana

Reviews: "A joy to have in class." - "She is the person on your team I can routinely count on to deliver. Your fastest performer." - "I wish I had a brain like Zana Jipsen." - "The best code reviewer I have ever worked with." - "These lemon potatoes are amazing!"

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Vanta
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Boom Supersonic
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Greater Denver Area
- Member of Agile team of 6 developers creating tools to design a supersonic passenger jet at a record-setting aerospace startup with $200M+ in funding
- Served as technical lead, product owner, and scrum master for 2 years on Python tool used to make critical design decisions, thereby informing company direction
- Core contributor on computational job pipeline handling 100+ terabytes of data over 1,000,000+ job hours 
- Interviewed and onboarded 4 engineers more senior than myself in domain knowledge, strong code architecture and code review quality standards

### Software Engineer @ Boom Supersonic
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Denver Area

### Software Engineer 2 @ MyVest
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Member of Agile team of 5 developers using Java to enhance applications used to manage over $4 Billion in retirement accounts
- Technical lead on project to improve account reconciliation logic, resulting in users seeing 600 fewer mismatched accounts daily
- Enhanced API with over 20 new endpoints to support efficient data retrieval for automated end-to-end tests; built test automation framework from scratch using Node.js
- Resolved 12 high priority production bugs and was on call during 6 quarterly releases

### Software Engineer 1 @ MyVest
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Assistant System Administrator @ Berkeley Wireless Research Center
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Greenstars GmbH
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Berlin Area, Germany


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Korean Language
Sogang University

### Education Abroad Program in Computer Science
Technische Universität Berlin


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zana-jipsen
- Website: https://zanajipsen.com

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Source: https://flows.cv/zana
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/zana/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-29