Roland Synnestvedt
Senior Software Engineer at BetterHelp
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoland Synnestvedt is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack applications and production infrastructure, currently contributing to BetterHelp in Sacramento. He progressed from applications developer and systems administrator roles at UC Davis—where he designed infrastructure and tooling for the Mouse Biology Program—to senior engineering at a fast-growing teletherapy company, demonstrating a strong blend of backend, DevOps, and application development skills. Comfortable across PHP, JavaScript, Python, and MySQL, Roland has moved between academic research environments, indie game development, and startup-style engineering, which gives him a pragmatic, cross-domain problem-solving approach. He pairs a BS in Statistics with hands-on systems work, so he brings both quantitative thinking and operational rigor to software design. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who bridges tooling and product needs, often automating repeatable processes that unlock developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS Statistics at University of California, Davis
English
Github Skills (200)
rsa10
vim10
nvim10
puppet10
api10
httpd10
aes10
command-line10
i310
nix10
pipenv10
docker-compose10
ecdsa10
serverless-plugin10
neovim-plugin10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
DAVISLUG/lugod.org
Oct 2018 - Feb 2022
Jekyll site code for lugod.org
Contributions:9 PRs, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
jekyll-sitejekyllruby
rsynnest/camera
May 2015 - Sep 2021
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
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