Summary
Isaac Sek is a results-driven software engineer with nine years of experience building high-throughput backend systems, mobile apps, and web services, currently shaping spending platform features at Robinhood. At Nordstrom he led performance and cost optimizations—resolving a Kafka production loop that cut traffic 6x and engineering database and ingress changes that yielded tens of thousands in monthly savings—while also launching critical systems like a yard management solution and in-store Android integrations. He’s fluent in Java, JavaScript, Spring, Kafka, Kubernetes and CI/CD tooling, and has a track record of accelerating release cycles and improving observability across services. Isaac pairs academic rigor from a Computer Science degree with hands-on product focus, shipping user-facing projects such as an interactive sound-learning app and cross-device mobile tools that measurably improved operational efficiency. Outside work he stays active running and playing tennis, and continuously experiments with new stacks like React/Redux in side projects.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Geography, Geography at University of Washington
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Washington Bothell
English