Reid Sherman
San Francisco, CA
Summary
Summary
Award-winning software developer, technologist, and former educator with a track record of building flagship products and creative solutions to technical problems.
Experience
Experience
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Founder
2024 — PresentHazy Bridge[0]
- Build and deploy custom software, cloud infrastructure, and technology solutions for organizations and events.
- Manage projects end-to-end, from identifying technical needs and designing solutions through implementation, deployment, and ongoing support.
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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
- Spearheaded the school's Software Development curriculum, managed the computer lab, and taught students how to code web applications.
- Lead the afterschool program Girls Who Code and organized field trips to meet technical teams at Google and Morgan Stanley.
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