Summary
Valencia Kaplinsky is a Full Stack Engineer with nine years of experience building and leading product-focused engineering teams in New York. She blends hands-on development with people-first management, having reduced complexity and improved quality at Traive by consolidating services, migrating databases, and cutting over 26k lines of code while instituting a bug triage process that measurably lifted customer and team satisfaction. At Brace and Stavvy she drove delivery for regulated mortgage products, contributed to SOC2 readiness, and formalized onboarding and engineering practices to scale teams. Now at Sagetap, she continues to remove friction and champion ownership across the stack, pairing empathy-driven leadership with a knack for simplifying systems. An early background in public-sector systems and teaching informs her disciplined approach to documentation, observability, and sustainable team growth.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University at Buffalo
Russian