Rider Jensen

About Me

Just a regular guy who likes writing software.

"Changing is our normal state. Even if we're not changing on the outside we're changing on the inside constantly."
- Jake the Dog

"Perfection is the enemy of progress."
- Winston Churchill

Who I Am

To distill a person to a list of interests is such a disservice to what humans are. That being said, here is a list of my interests.

Technology
To have such vast information and resources available to so many people on the planet, all based on a 1 or a 0, its incredible no matter how often I think about it. I love learning about the incredible things that great people are creating with technology and how it is helping so many lives.
Traveling
I feel very lucky to have been born in such a time where travel is so easy and accessible. Learning about other cultures, experiencing new cuisine and customs, and making new friends is what the human experience is all about.
Exercise
While I love learning (what I would classify as mental exercise), rediscovering my love for working out has improved my life more than I thought it ever would. Who would have thought lifting heavy object over and over again would make your brain feel good?
Movies
Had I not developed such an intense love of technology, I no doubt would have tried my hand at acting. Even still I have pipe dreams of one day seeing my name as the credits to a movie slowly crawl across the screen.
Quotes
When I was around 10 I picked up a lasting habit of reading quotes before bed. These snippets range from commentary on what it means to lead a good life to witty one liners you could use to make your friends laugh and it includes everything in between.
Cooking
Cooking is a new interest of mine and it is such an incredible art form that takes true blend of precision mixed with creativity.

Work History

  1. SageSure

    Software Engineer

    Lead Frontend Software Engineer for an internal product, I own the entire frontend scope, utilizing React.js and TypeScript. I work closely with stakeholders and the product team to transform ideas from conception to code completion. Committed to delivering high-quality, user-centric solutions, I contribute to a robust testing environment by writing unit tests and end-to-end tests. Additionally, I collaborate with cross-functional teams to create and enhance components within our internal design system.

  2. Dashlane

    Software Engineer

    In charge of architecting, developing, improving, and maintaining the Dashlane web applications and the Dashlane browser extensions. Used the latest front-end technologies such as TypeScript, React, and Redux, to build an incredible product and handle complicated challenges in order to make the Dashlane feature set available to any browser on any device. Collaborated with the product, design, and QA teams to constantly improve the user experience.

  3. Adobe

    Software Engineer

    Worked in an Agile environment and estimated assigned work, created OO designs, provided task breakdowns and implemented features and microservices using Java, PHP, web technologies (JavaScript, React) and multiple frameworks (Docker, AWS, GCP).

  4. Adobe Workfront

    Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

    Assisted the team in turning high-touch manual processes into fully automatic solutions, and maintaining and improving existing automations. Developed an understanding of automation and orchestration procedures to automate wherever and whenever possible while eliminating technical debt. Working with the team to find optimizations and other efficiencies in order to scale applications and services. Communicated end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of the production services. Helped senior and principal SREs guide development teams to engineer scalable, fail-safe, and optimized solutions to the Workfront product suite.

  5. Zurixx

    Full Stack Developer

    Main in-house developer, worked with marketing to create solutions that would result in lead generation. Decreased average marketing web page load time by 76%. Worked directly on server setting up websites, creating virtual hosts, setting permissions, also had experience setting up both dev and prod environments. Very familiar with Linux environments, mainly Centos7. Worked on creating new functionality to already existing platforms including working with pre-existing APIs and APIs provided from third parties. Worked in a CI/CD environment using git for version control.

  6. Utah Valley University

    Web Area Developer

    Used front-end frameworks and libraries with HTML, CSS, and JS knowledge to create websites for customers from conception to deployment.

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