Summary
Trace Helms is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 12 years of experience building full-stack web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Elixir, and Ruby on Rails. He has progressed from hands-on engineering roles to team leadership at companies including Twitter and GetThru, and now shapes healthcare engineering at RVO Health. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he brings experience shipping scalable user-facing products and mentoring teams through growth and transition. His background blends a mechanical engineering bachelor with an MS in computer science, hinting at a pragmatic, system-oriented approach to software design.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering at University of South Florida
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at University of West Florida