San Francisco, CA

Vincent
Shuali

Full-stack engineer building systems at scale — and the teams that keep them that way.

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Experience
3+ years production
Scale
6M+ users reached
Impact
24% conversion increase
Stack
TypeScript · React · Rails · Python
Resume
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Experience

Feb 2025 – Present Current

Lead Software Engineer

Tort Experts

Next.jsTypeScriptPythonFastAPIGCPPulumi
  • Directed a 3-engineer team through a front-end redesign that delivered a 24% increase in conversion rate.
  • Drove reprioritization of page speed over competing infrastructure work — resulting in a 70% LCP improvement (8.0s → 2.4s) and 73% reduction in Total Blocking Time.
  • Led migration of production websites serving 3M annual visitors from a legacy CDN to Vercel, reducing alert noise by 50–70%.
  • Maintained a Python FastAPI tool that cut lawsuit lander page creation from 38 min to 6 min — a 6.3× speedup.
  • Redesigned CI/CD pipeline, cutting deployment times by 70%; tripled unit and E2E test coverage with Sentry.io monitoring across the full stack.
  • Mentored and managed 2 junior engineers to their most productive sprint cycle in 2 months.
Jun 2023 – Sep 2024

Software Engineer

CommonLit

ReactTypeScriptRuby on RailsTailwindCSSAWS
  • Built backend routing and controllers for featured text collections used by over 6 million users, with 100% RSpec/Capybara test coverage, delivered ahead of schedule.
  • Constructed and upgraded 50+ TypeScript StencilJS web components and React components, prototyped with Storybook and tested with Vitest/Playwright.
  • Fixed 12+ security vulnerabilities protecting student and teacher PII; ensured SOC2 compliance.
  • Co-led cross-functional (product / engineering / design) drive to standardize pre-release QA procedures and testing accounts.
  • Top contributor among 10 non-senior engineers in final 6 months, measured by PRs approved and deployed.
Jan – May 2023

Software Engineer

Red Jester

GatsbyReactGraphQLPythonAWS Lambda
  • Built an e-commerce site (Gatsby / React / GraphQL) hosted on AWS (CloudFront, Lambda, S3).
  • Spearheaded Google Calendar API integration to automate customer-requested appointments from Shef.com.
  • Achieved 100% test coverage with Python unittest and pytest; designed CI/CD pipeline with Concourse.
May 2023 – Present Volunteer

Full-Stack Developer

SF Civic Tech

Next.jsReactNode.jsPlaywrightStorybook
  • Currently contributing full-stack to Support SF Schools, a platform connecting SF residents to volunteer with local schools — emerged from community research with hundreds of SF residents.
  • Previously contributed to Compass (paraeducator progress tracking): authentication, backend data architecture with React Query, and 2FA testing with Playwright.
  • Set up Storybook for frontend component testing on Routed.
2020 – 2022

Physics Professor

Diablo Valley College

  • Designed interactive student experiences in Desmos and Geogebra for calculus and physics — rated outstanding by students and faculty.
  • Covered 120% course load in a single semester, stepping in for two faculty leaves of absence.
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Skills

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonRubySQLHTML5 / CSS3

Frontend

ReactNext.jsTailwindCSSStencilJSStorybookGraphQL

Backend

Node.jsRuby on RailsFastAPIRESTful APIsGatsby

Data & Cloud

PostgreSQLMongoDBAWSGCPVercelPulumi

Testing

Vitest / JestPlaywrightRSpec / Capybarapytest

Practices

TDDAgile / ScrumCI/CDSOC2 complianceSentry
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Projects

A selection of personal and open-source work.

Compass

Open-source Next.js app for paraeducators to set goals and track progress for students with disabilities. Contributed authentication, backend data architecture, and Playwright E2E tests.

Next.jsTypeScriptReact QueryPlaywright

Limits & Continuity Explorer

Interactive pre-calculus tutorial using Chart.js and randomly generated piecewise functions implemented as linked list nodes — making the infinite feel approachable, one discontinuity at a time.

JavaScriptChart.jsData StructuresEd Tech

Support SF Schools

SF Civic Tech platform connecting San Francisco residents to volunteer with their local schools — regardless of whether they have children enrolled. Currently contributing as a full-stack developer.

Next.jsTypeScriptReactNode.js
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About

Vincent Shuali

I got here by following curiosity. It started with lasers — measuring molecular signals at the limits of detection — then moved through classrooms, and eventually landed me in production systems reaching millions of people. The through-line is finding elegant solutions to problems that matter to someone.

At Tort Experts I led a team that delivered measurable business impact. At CommonLit I helped build tools teachers and students depend on daily. Both felt like the same work: understand a complex system, then make it better for the humans on the other side.

I care about code that the next engineer will be glad to inherit, products that work for everyone, and teams where people feel safe enough to say what they don't know. I co-led documentation and QA overhauls at two companies — because good systems need good foundations.

Outside of work I'm usually biking around San Francisco, learning a language (fluent in English and Spanish, working on Hebrew), or facilitating community workshops. I'm drawn to work where the product's success is someone's better day.

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Let's connect

Open to mid-level software engineering roles, especially in ed tech, civic tech, or mission-driven products. Feel free to reach out.

  vincent.shuali@gmail.com
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