Summary
Mitchell Probst is a Lead Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, partner-facing systems across industries including finance, e-commerce, health, and animation. He brings full-stack fluency in TypeScript, Java, Python, and PHP and a track record of reducing technical debt and improving developer velocity and latency for large partners like Amazon and Shopify. At Affirm he rewrote core APIs and led webhook improvements to surface richer loan data without impacting performance, and he now focuses on enabling others to be more effective at Cartwheel. His background in systematic market-making at Goldman Sachs and teaching competitive coding reflects a blend of quantitative rigor and an aptitude for mentoring. Based in Roseville, CA, he approaches engineering as a tool for building great products that meaningfully serve clients.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 3.89, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 3.89 at Brigham Young University