Summary
Finn Cardiff is a software engineer with 11 years of full‑stack experience building scalable web and game systems, currently focused on TypeScript/Nest.js backends and cloud-native CI/CD at State Farm in Seattle. He has a strong track record founding and scaling products—from an AI-driven eCommerce startup that processed 40M+ retail datapoints to Roblox games with 9M+ play sessions—combining backend performance tuning, data pipelines, and frontend UX. Skilled in React, Node, PostgreSQL/MongoDB, AWS and multiple languages, he routinely drives 30–400% performance gains by optimizing databases, APIs, and rendering paths. Finn pairs hands-on engineering with leadership: migrating enterprise auth systems, leading technical teams, and architecting APIs that handle hundreds of thousands of daily requests. An analytical builder, he also engineered custom recommendation algorithms and high-throughput data ingestion pipelines that boosted revenue and retention in real products.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Yorktown High School
English, Spanish