Theisen Sanders
Director Of Engineering at Cove
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTheisen Sanders is an engineering leader with 13+ years of experience building full-stack, reliable systems and scaling teams through periods of rapid growth and change. Currently Director of Engineering at Workiva and serving as CTO at an early-stage health tech startup, he combines hands-on architecture ownership with product-driven execution across web, mobile, and backend services. He has led international expansion efforts, patented and shipped multilingual collaboration tooling, and launched a public REST API that opened platform partnerships and workflows. Known for hiring and growing diverse teams quickly, he doubled team capacity for a major product in under a year and improved operational support metrics org-wide. Comfortable moving between code and strategy, he brings practical experience with Go, React/Next.js, Flutter, and building HIPAA-compliant systems for real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Iowa State University
Github Skills (34)
platform-agnostic10
transport9
codegen9
pubsub9
thrift9
concurrency8
websocket8
java8
responsive8
html5-canvas8
javascript7
dart6
canvas6
flutter5
react5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tsand/snowstorm
May 2016 - Jan 2019
Simple Javascript ORM
Contributions:2 releases, 5 pushes, 6 tags in 2 years 8 months
javascriptsqlnodejsdatabasejavascript-orm
tsand/color-sampling
Mar 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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