Summary
Narin Ratana is a senior software engineer based in San Diego with over 15 years of cross-industry experience building user-focused products in civic tech, entertainment, IoT, energy, and ad-tech. He has led front-end and DevOps efforts on high-impact government projects—most notably the VA: Health and Benefits mobile app that reached nearly 3M downloads and 200k daily users—guiding teams from prototype to a mature, production-grade product. Comfortable across the full stack, he has shipped design systems and component libraries, migrated auth systems, and rewritten CI/CD workflows to improve reliability and developer velocity. As a founding engineer at a startup he owned architecture, media processing, and AWS infrastructure end-to-end, showing both entrepreneurial grit and operational discipline. He pairs hands-on implementation with cross-functional collaboration, translating UX and policy requirements into scalable, maintainable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Minor, Psychology, Minor, Psychology at Penn State University
Thai, English