Reid Sherman
San Francisco, CA
Summary
Summary
Award-winning software designer, technologist, and entrepreneur with a track record of building flagship products that drive high valuations and customer satisfaction. Experienced across the entire software development lifecycle, collaborating with diverse teams, and transforming innovative ideas into successful deployments. I want to leave the world better than I found it, by living sustainably and by helping those in need. I strive to be supportive and kind towards my friends, neighbors, coworkers, and everyone else I come across.
Experience
Experience
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Senior Software Engineer
2021 — 2024PURE Property Management[1]
- Supported due diligence efforts as the department's Engineering Lead, aligning product and engineering roadmaps and preparing materials for investor presentations, leading to a $50M Series A fundraise.
- Optimized our property management system's frontend, reducing development environment startup time from multiple minutes to under ten seconds.
- Integrated industry standard static analysis tools, enabling us to patch severe security vulnerabilities and increase our test coverage to over 80%.
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Information Technology Support Specialist
2019 — 2021Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley
- Monitored, tested, and upgraded dozens of network access points, enabling a seamless transition to a remote learning environment.
- Migrated thousands of student and faculty records from legacy on-premise database to a modern cloud-based Learning Management System with zero data loss or downtime.
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Software Engineer
2018 — 2019Amberdata[3]
- Built real-time cryptocurrency network visualizations, empowering financial institutions to track and analyze critical market data.
- Represented the company at dozens of web3 conferences, building industry connections, fostering partnerships, and staying ahead of emerging trends.
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Science Teacher
2013 — 2017New York Department of Education
- Inspired underrepresented students to pursue software development careers by leading a popular Girls Who Code afterschool club and organizing field trips to Google and Morgan Stanley's New York offices.
Projects
Projects
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Text-Scheduler[4]
- Integrated the native Messages app with plain text files, enabling local-first automation for SMS, iMessage, and WhatsApp.
- Reached the front page of YCombinator's News Website "HackerNews" and received over 100 GitHub stars.
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Reroute.ai
- Pitched a freight reworking service with a supply chain manager at PepsiCo, winning second prize at a shipping logistics hackathon.[5]
- Incorporated the company as Reroute.ai and successfully reworked multiple truckloads of damaged freight with warehouse partners, saving thousands of pounds of cargo from landfill.
Skills
Skills
- Ordered by familiarity
- Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Tailwind, Vue, React.
- Backend: NGINX, Linux, Python, Django.
- Database: Firebase, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
- Cloud: DigitalOcean, Heroku, GCP, AWS.
Education
Education
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Masters in Teaching, Earth Science
2012 — 2013American Museum of Natural History, New York
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Bachelor of Science, Earth Science
2008 — 2012University of California, Santa Cruz