Resume
San Francisco Bay Area
paganio@yahoo.com
linkedin.com/in/opagani
github.com/opagani
Summary
Senior Software Engineer with deep front-end and full-stack experience across Yahoo!, Wells Fargo, Pixar Animation Studios, Trulia, and Zillow — with earlier roles at Lucasfilms, Ericsson, and NASA. Specialist in modern JavaScript ecosystems — React, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL — with a record of leading initiatives, mentoring engineers, and shipping internal tools and consumer-facing products at scale. Strong cross-functional collaborator across product, design, and platform teams.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer · Zillow
Aug 2016 – 2023 · San Francisco Bay Area
Led front-end and full-stack engineering across Zillow Group's rentals product surface — Zillow Rental Manager, Renter's Insurance, Payments, Applications, and Leases.
- Designed and built a landlord-facing admin tool from scratch to surface policy status, reports, and operational data across the rentals platform.
- Architected the React front end with TypeScript, React Query, and React Table, and a Node.js + GraphQL API behind it.
- Mentored engineers and partnered with product, design, and platform teams to ship features and unblock cross-functional work.
Stack: React.js · TypeScript · Node.js · GraphQL · React Query · React Table
Senior JavaScript Engineer · Trulia
Dec 2014 – Jul 2016 · San Francisco Bay Area
Owned development and maintenance of Trulia's rentals web pages and mobile web experiences.
- Led front-end development for an initiative that began as a hack-week project — surfacing rentals near transit stations — and shipped to production.
- Modernized the rentals stack with React.js, ES6, and Webpack ahead of these tools becoming industry-standard.
Stack: React.js · Node.js · ES6 · Webpack
Front End Web Developer, Studio Tools · Pixar Animation Studios
Oct 2011 – Oct 2014 · San Francisco Bay Area
Built internal web tools used across every Pixar production, partnering directly with directors, producers, animators, and artists.
- Designed and shipped a Content Management System hosting videos, pictures, and assets for all of Pixar's active films.
- Built the front end in JavaScript and Ext JS and the back end in Python.
- Provided ongoing technical support to studio creatives across multiple departments.
Stack: JavaScript · Ext JS · Python
Front End Web Developer · Wells Fargo
2009 – 2011
- Built bank-internal web applications using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, layered on a custom framework on top of YUI.
- Created responsive web pages spanning multiple Wells Fargo applications.
Stack: JavaScript · HTML · CSS · YUI
Software Engineer · Yahoo!
2006 – 2009
Front-end engineering across three flagship Yahoo! properties — Yahoo! Answers, Yahoo! Video, and the online advertising team.
- Built and maintained tools using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Integrated the Yahoo! YUI library across multiple applications.
Stack: JavaScript · HTML · CSS · YUI
Education
- Lewis & Clark College — BS, Mathematics
- San Francisco State University — BS, Electrical Engineering
Skills
Languages: TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · C++ · C · HTML5 · CSS
Frameworks & libraries: React.js · Node.js · GraphQL · React Query · React Table · Ext JS · YUI
Practices: Front-end architecture · Full-stack development · Mentoring · Cross-functional collaboration
Languages
- Spanish — native / bilingual
- Italian — professional working proficiency