Andrea Diaz

Sr. Software Engineer at Viderity

Andrea Diaz has a diverse work experience in the field of software engineering and web development. Andrea has worked at various companies in different roles over the years.

Andrea started their career as a Senior Web Developer at mPower Advisors, where they prototyped the wire-frame of an Enterprise SaaS retirement advice application. Andrea also built and maintained a custom web publishing framework for high-traffic interactive websites.

Andrea then moved on to work at WeDirect as a Software Engineer, where they designed and built a content management system using Perl, PHP, and MySQL. Andrea was responsible for designing and coding niche web sites that ranked high in search engines.

After that, Andrea worked at Vinq as a Software Engineer, where they built middleware layers and features for Fannie Mae's "KnowledgePlex" application. Andrea also integrated Lexis Nexis XML feeds into the application.

Next, they joined PayPal (eBay) as a Web Developer, where they developed the XML Presentation Tier for PayPal's web architecture. Andrea also led web developer training and worked in Release Engineering to improve developer productivity.

At Fluid, Andrea worked as a Front-End Developer, building prototype UIs from design specs and refactoring HTML emails to improve compliance across different email clients.

Andrea then joined WhiteHat Security as a Senior UI Engineer, where they designed and developed UI for their Enterprise SaaS web security application suite. Andrea also introduced Selenium IDE for automated UI testing and worked closely with senior management.

Andrea worked at Palm as a Web Developer, where they worked on home pages, mobile applications, and product details pages for palm.com using the YUI JavaScript library.

Andrea then joined Yahoo! as a UI Prototyper, where they built interactive prototypes of designs for Search UED usability labs. Andrea also contributed production-quality UI code for 3rd party applications embedded in Yahoo search results.

Finally, Andrea is currently working at Viderity Inc. as a Senior Software Engineer, where they develop next-generation UI for Viderity clients using PHP, jQuery, CSS, and XHTML. Andrea is responsible for prototyping personalized experiences and improving the user experience after order completion.

Andrea Diaz earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from San Diego State University. The exact duration of their education is not specified.

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  • Sr. Software Engineer

    June, 2010 - present