Summary
Desmond Sadler is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building full‑stack web and mobile applications using Ruby on Rails, React (including React Native), TypeScript, Postgres, and Docker. He has led small engineering teams and introduced React into production while at Mavenlink, and currently drives backend and DevOps work at HOVER. As founder and CTO of Tunelark he combined product-minded engineering with user-focused design to create a low-stress music learning platform. He also has strong experience in energy analytics and embedded building-control UIs from earlier roles, showing a knack for domain-specific interfaces and data visualization. Outside work he runs a free cloud file storage project (HeyRobot.org/files), reflecting a practical interest in tooling and public-facing services.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Band, History, B+, High School Diploma, Band, History, B+ at George Washington High School
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Double Major in History, Philosophy, Honors, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Double Major in History, Philosophy, Honors at UC Santa Cruz