Summary
Sydney Palumbo is a software engineering lead with nine years of experience building front-end focused, user-centered web applications across startups and product companies. Based in Miami, she has progressed from front-end engineer roles at Smartcar to founding engineer at Traba and engineering leadership at Arcade, blending hands-on coding with product and design sensibilities. Her background in computer science (Duke) with a finance minor and a stint at Campus Enterprises running operations gives her rare cross-functional fluency between engineering, business operations, and UX. She favors shipping polished interfaces and improving developer workflows, bringing an entrepreneur’s mindset to team-building and product strategy. Notably, she’s comfortable moving between early-stage founding problems and scaling product engineering in larger teams.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science & Minor in Finance, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science & Minor in Finance at Duke University
The University of Sydney
Valedictorian, Valedictorian at Sts. Peter and Paul High School
English, Spanish