Victoria L. Lackey

Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of React experience across Fortune 500 companies and innovative startups. Technical lead at Intuitive Surgical building FDA-compliant platforms for Da Vinci surgical robots, and at PayPal leading development for merchant analytics serving majority of PayPal merchants. 22 years as a professional developer, 5+ years in technical leadership roles guiding teams of 7+ engineers, with deep expertise in modern JavaScript ecosystem, Agile/Scrum methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and scalable platform architecture.

(213) 881-8077
github.com/3Viky
viky.dev
San Francisco, CA

Experience

Intuitive Surgical Staff Software Engineer, Platform -

Technical lead for Aperture and Lighthouse products powering Da Vinci surgical robot diagnostics and field service operations. Led integration of legacy Aperture platform into modern Lighthouse architecture using Agile methodologies, creating unified system for remote debugging and proactive maintenance across global fleet.

  • Led modernization of 5+ year old Aperture platform through complete rebuild within Lighthouse application
  • Architected Lighthouse product enabling engineers and field service teams to review robot data from deployed systems globally
  • Designed and built robot OS installation and software update interface supporting development, manufacturing, and field service workflows
  • Developed data aggregation platform for field service analytics to identify hardware failure patterns and trends
  • Implemented advanced timeline visualization using Visx for field service session analysis and debugging
  • Created interactive 3D robot model synchronized with system error logs for visual debugging
  • Built comprehensive lab management system featuring machine reservations, downtime tracking, OS version selection, and real-time state monitoring with Microsoft Office integration
  • Conducted web analytics to identify primary users for feature improvement interviews and requirements gathering
  • Published and maintained internal UI component library with styled-components, Storybook documentation, and Turbo/Vite build infrastructure
  • Designed REST and WebSocket communication architecture for real-time robot system integration
  • Established Playwright testing framework with CI/CD pipeline across mature codebase following bulletproof testing patterns
  • Presented technical achievements and product roadmap at company demo day to executive leadership
FDA-compliant development React TypeScript Turbo Vite Visx styled-components Storybook WebSockets REST APIs 3D visualization Playwright Component libraries Monorepo architecture Microsoft Office Integration Web Analytics
PayPal Staff Software Engineer, Platform -

Technical lead for global SMB merchant analytics and Pay Later product development. Led merchant enablement system architecture using Agile methodologies while guiding team of 7 engineers building modern analytics experiences demonstrating Pay Later's impact on merchant growth.

  • Led technical architecture for global SMB merchant analytics platform serving majority of PayPal merchants
  • Architected and built complete Pay Later merchant enablement system: payment method integration, email campaign builder, and promotional tracking tools
  • Guided team of 7 engineers through iterative development cycles with close designer collaboration using Agile/Scrum practices
  • Built analytics dashboards proving Pay Later increased both total sales volume and non-Pay Later transaction frequency
  • Mentored junior developers through complex feature division and technical growth paths while establishing modular development best practices with CI/CD
React 15 React 16 TypeScript Agile/Scrum CI/CD Jest Mocha GraphQL Express Webpack Node.js D3 Analytics A/B Testing
JUUL Labs Sr. Software Engineer, Platform -

Led architecture and hands-on development for next-generation IoT platform using React and TypeScript. Software Lead for cross-functional data-over-sound device activation initiative spanning 7 departments and over 100 engineers.

  • Software Lead for data-over-sound device activation initiative coordinating 7 departments and 100+ engineers across development, QA, and deployment
  • Maintained production systems: 5 internal React applications and 2 TypeScript WebAudio packages supporting device activation and monitoring
  • Created and presented comprehensive development strategy (documentation, workflow diagrams, architecture slides) to board and executive leadership
  • Refactored 5-year old IoT platform implementing modern architecture, integration testing, theme-ability, and CI/CD practices for multi-tenant deployment
React 16 Redux TypeScript Agile/Scrum CI/CD Jest Material-UI Webpack Node.js D3 Canvas WebAudio API IoT
SkyLo Tech. Sr. Front End Engineer, Platform -

Built React applications for satellite ISP platform at Series A startup. Worked with space industry leaders on NB-IoT solutions while building the remote team and implementing GraphQL data processing.

  • Created 2 client demos awarding the company with its first $100M in sales
  • Worked with a principal level designer to create a complete multi-tenant PaaS operations portal designed for 3 unique but overlapping audiences
  • Propose and implement FrontEnd TGR stack w/ gitlab CI/CD and docker
TypeScript GraphQL React 16.8 GCP K8s REST WebSockets MQTT
Primer.AI Sr. Front End Engineer, Platform -

Developed React applications for NLP/NLG research tools at InQTel-funded ML startup. Built solutions addressing the Intelligence-Data Gap problem while growing the engineering team.

  • Updates to https://quicksilver.primer.ai (GatsbyJS and GraphQL)
  • Improve analysis creator w/ search suggestions, boolean query builder, and analysis evidence reviewer
  • Move python Excel exporter from server to client to hook into redux table state
React Redux Redux-Saga Storybook Jest GatsbyJS GraphQL
FLEXtronics Design Full Stack Engineer -

Built React and WebSocket applications for FLEX's IoT innovation studio 'Ignite'. Created tools for teams designing Bluetooth IoT products, implementing NoSQL data stores and DevOps practices.

  • Create white-label, templateable, admin and analytics portal for brands' users, and devices
  • Setup continuous-development, Docker, and host brands w/ AWS multi-tenant microservice infrastructure
  • Tech talks on new technologies: React, GraphQL, Terraform (IAC)
React Redux TypeScript Express Meteor WebSockets
HealthTrio Front End Team Lead -

Developed React applications serving over 10 million medical users at HealthTrio while providing technical leadership and mentorship to the team.

  • Rebuild white-label ARIA component library and modules with React/Redux used by 5 Apps with industry standards to improve team velocity, scalability and maintainability
  • Lead weekly training sessions, and mentor UI team
  • Taught 'state of the art' SF software industry practices to the 50 person engineering team including 'pair programming', 'test driven development' (TDD), and tech talks on react and redux
React REST Flow webpack2 babel PostCSS

Education

B.A. in Psychology

Arizona State University (ASU) 2010 - 2011

Physics/Astronomy

Cal Poly 2005 - 2009

Skills

Frontend

React (10 years) TypeScript Redux Modern JavaScript (ES6+) CSS3/Sass Webpack Jest/Testing

Backend

Node.js Express GraphQL REST APIs WebSockets PostgreSQL MongoDB

Cloud & DevOps

AWS GCP Docker Kubernetes CI/CD Terraform

Specialized

FDA-compliant development Medical device software IoT systems Real-time systems WebAudio API

Leadership & Methodologies

Technical Leadership Team Management (7+ engineers) Agile/Scrum CI/CD Pipeline Management Test-Driven Development Pair programming Code Review Technical Presentations Cross-functional Collaboration Sprint Planning Kanban

Languages

English