Helen Hastings
Founder at Quanta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHelen Hastings is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable systems and consumer-facing web products from seed to production. After a progression through engineering roles at Affirm culminating in Senior Staff Software Engineer, she launched Quanta to apply her strengths in abstract problem solving and technical leadership. Her background spans distributed systems (VMware, Google), front-end single-page apps (NerdWallet), and applied security/malware analysis in research settings, reflecting a rare full-stack fluency. Based in San Francisco, she combines rapid self-starting curiosity with practical delivery—repeatedly eliminating inefficient processes and shipping reusable tooling that accelerates teams. Colleagues describe her as inquisitive and dedication-driven, equally comfortable authoring core infrastructure changes or designing user-facing experiences.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (6)
flask-application4
flask3
spotify-api3
react2
spotify2
python2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
he1en/dotfiles
Aug 2017 - May 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
sloanesturz/experiments
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:15 commits in 2 days
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