Tamara Bain
Tech Lead at Robinhood
Tamara Bain
Tech Lead at Robinhood
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Staff Software Engineer | Tech Lead
2022 - Current
* Technical lead for 5 teams * Technical lead for International Expansion * Improved resiliency on teams from 1 major incident per quarter to 0 major incidents in two years
Staff Software Engineer | Tech Lead for Trading
2020 - 2022
* Technical Lead for 3 team * Technical Lead for 24H Markets (first 24-5 equities trading), including patentable technical solutions * Led scaling efforts to 10x capacity #LetThePeopleTrade
Venture Partner
2018 - 2021
Pioneer fund is a venture capital fund that specializes in investing in YC companies. Average initial check size is $200,000 - $300,000. Venture partners pool their knowledge and expertise when evaluating companies. My specific expertise is in Consumer Products, Marketplace Applications, Cryptocurrency and Social.
Founder | Tech Lead
2018 - 2020
Founder and technical lead at Signal - a blazing fast platform for cryptocurrency investors. We allow traders to execute complex strategies across multiple exchanges, in a simple and user-friendly manner. Our tool watches the market 24/7 so that traders don't have to. We offer advanced order types like laddered buys, on the fly order editing, and trailing stop losses. Role and responsibilities: - Tech lead for a team of developers - Architect of our AWS infrastructure and deployment system. The entire infrastructure system is codified and can be launched within minutes from an Ansible playbook. (VPC, security groups, load balancers, application, http and micro service servers, RDS Postgres database, Redis Elasticache cluster, amazon SES, S3, and cloudfront) - Designed and implemented our internal subscription payments system (a pain point for crypto products) - Designed and implemented our frontend application (Vue.js, Typescript) and frontend deployment system (unit tests, e2e tests, snapshot tests, auto updating service worker, gzipped deployment with webpack and babel) - Designed and implemented our AB testing framework with amplitude, for testing new features and presentation changes - Backend developer in (Django REST, Python, Huey)
Founder | Tech Lead
2015 - 2018
Founder and technical lead at Chillabit - An incredibly engaging social media platform for university students. At its peak our average daily usage was 42 minutes a day per user (higher than Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram usage for the same demographic). We raised venture funding and grew our product to 15 schools across North America with over 150k downloads. Our technical team consisted of 4 talented developers that working on a native Android app a native iOS app and a Django REST/Postgres backend. Our platform is modularized and ready to scale on AWS. As this app had to allow people to post anonymously and only log in with university credentials security of our infrastructure was important. My contributions were primarily: - Technical lead of a team of developers - Used scrum and growth frameworks like ICE to prioritize a backlog of maintenance and growth tasks - Primary android engineer (4.8 stars on google play) - DevOps engineer, designing high availability secure architecture on AWS (EC2, S3, Redis, Nginx, Postgres) - Backend engineer working on our Django REST codebase (Django REST, Celery, Celery Beat)
Founder | Full Stack Software Engineer
2015 - 2015
* Developer of the NoLemon site. * Developer of NoLemon inspection app * Worked in Django REST, jQuery, javascript and Java
Full Stack Software Engineer
2014 - 2014
* Core member of the team responsible for launching and developing the Starfall science fiction game. * Architect and developer of the LARP database and site. * Worked in Django Rest and javascript * Invited on as a stakeholder.
Software Engineer Internship
2013 - 2014
* Worked on the Enterprise Applications team maintaining and and adding to internal operations software. * Primarily web development using Python and jQuery.
NSERC Software Research Assistant
2012 - 2012
* Implemented, tested and modified algorithms for image processing. * Worked on image segmentation of magnetic survey data. * Presenting findings at an end of summer work group, and january student research showcase.
Bioinformatics Summer Research Assistant
2011 - 2011
* Wrote scripts for reading strings of virus RNA code and matching results against a virus database. * Gained experience in the Scala programming language. * Invited back during the 2012 school year for an independent study course (for university credit).
Research Assistant (Contract Work)
2009 - 2011
* Delivery and assessment of a pilot drug and alcohol prevention program. * Performed thematic analyses of each years focus groups * Presented findings in a formal presentation and written report * Wrote a basic Java program and GUI for automating the entry of survey data into excel
Education
Bachelor's degree
2012 - 2015