Summary
Lindsay Hertz is a senior software engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building high-performance, user-focused web applications. She specializes in JavaScript/TypeScript, single-page apps, React and Angular, complex state management, browser performance, and data visualization. At Mode she led migrations, designed reusable data models and in-app editors, and drove measurable performance improvements through instrumentation and hypothesis-driven fixes. Now at Runway, she continues to ship polished browser experiences while collaborating across product, design, backend, and customer teams. Known for mentorship and technical documentation, she brings an empathetic engineering style honed from roles spanning analytics dashboards to real-time UX. An early background in philosophy and tutoring surfaces in her clear thinking about UX and technical trade-offs.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Castilleja School
BA, Philosophy, Politics, BA, Philosophy, Politics at Oberlin College