Summary
Mitchell Poynter is a software engineer based in Philadelphia, currently building products at Meta with eight years of hands-on experience across startups and enterprise environments. A University of Pennsylvania computer science student and former Division I athlete, he combines disciplined, team-oriented problem solving with practical skills in React, REST APIs, databases, .NET/Azure, and mobile iOS development. He co-founded a picture messaging app and has interned at analytics and SAAS companies where he shipped internal tooling, data pipelines, and ML model integrations that improved product observability and scalability. Comfortable across the full stack, Mitchell has moved from rapid-growth startup interfaces to enterprise-grade database tooling, showing an aptitude for turning data access challenges into usable features. He’s motivated by collaborative teams that feel like family and by product work that bridges engineering craft with tangible user impact.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania