Sasha Flores
Senior Backend Engineer at Grindr
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSasha Flores is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Chicago with 11 years of experience building scalable services and platforms across startups and growth-stage companies. Currently at Grindr, Sasha previously helped found and engineer Precognitive’s backend systems that contributed to its acquisition by ShopRunner, working with Node.js, Postgres, Mongo, RabbitMQ and GCP. Comfortable across data stores and messaging systems, Sasha has a track record of shipping resilient services and integrating heterogeneous stacks at production scale. Early roles managing ResTech labs and helpdesks honed their operational rigor, documentation habits, and people-management skills. Outside of work Sasha writes music, travels, and contributes to open source, bringing a creative perspective to technical problem solving. Collected experience across founding teams and larger product orgs makes Sasha effective at both rapid iteration and long-term platform stability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Business Operations & Information Management, Minor in Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science, Business Operations & Information Management, Minor in Computer Science at Northern Illinois University
Github Skills (30)
salesforce-lightning9
salesforce9
lightning8
google-cloud-platform7
zap6
google5
google-cloud5
sublime5
in-memory4
sublime-text4
gcp4
gift4
database4
twitter3
combo3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
appiphony/strike-cli
Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
sergiopalooza/weather
Sep 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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