Sep 2026 — now
Best Buy
Senior Software Engineer
Promoted after progressing through three engineering levels, with a track record of technical ownership, dependable delivery, and cross-team leadership.
Building the signal
Building the signal
Senior software engineer · San Antonio
I’m a Software Engineer.
I’m Tayden Flitcroft. I build high-traffic web and mobile experiences, strengthen the systems behind them, and help the people around me do their best work.
Impact / enterprise
Five years of increasing scope—shipping customer journeys, aligning cross-functional teams, and raising the quality bar inside a platform used by millions.
Sep 2026 — now
Best Buy
Promoted after progressing through three engineering levels, with a track record of technical ownership, dependable delivery, and cross-team leadership.
Feb 2023 — Sep 2026
Best Buy
Led Trade-In and Fulfillment experiences across BestBuy.com and cross-platform products, supporting high-traffic, revenue-critical customer journeys with React, React Native, and TypeScript.
Selected builds
The throughline is practical: notice friction, understand the system, and make something people can actually use.
API platform
A Node.js and TypeScript service that became the shared API layer behind multiple personal products, from portfolio delivery to Pokédex data.
Why it mattersDesigned one reusable backend instead of repeating infrastructure project by project.
How I work
I connect customer intent, design detail, and technical constraints—then carry the work from requirements through production.
My default is clear boundaries, maintainable interfaces, measured performance, and code another engineer can confidently change.
I make teams stronger through planning, reviews, mentorship, and the kind of communication that keeps complex work moving.
Beyond the ticket
Technical skill matters most when it creates leverage for other people.
Best Buy Hackathon · 2023
Built a platform that connected early-career engineers with experienced mentors across skill areas, improving knowledge-sharing and onboarding.
Algorithm competition · 2023
Solved complex algorithmic problems under strict time pressure in Best Buy’s annual engineering competition.
The résumé
Five-plus years across enterprise web and mobile, a 4.0 summa cum laude bachelor’s degree, and an M.S. in Software Engineering Management in progress.
Start a conversation
Have a product problem, an ambitious team, or a system that deserves a better interface? Send the context. I’ll read every note.
contact@taydenflitcroft.comSan Antonio, Texas
Feb 2021 — Feb 2023
Best Buy
Built a foundation in large-scale commerce across web and mobile, expanding into delivery pipelines, testing, security-minded review, and modern front-end architecture.
Home infrastructure
A Dockerized control surface for monitoring the services running across a self-hosted home media environment.
Why it mattersTurned scattered operational status into a single purpose-built interface.
Real-time product
An authenticated tabletop companion with dramatic dice outcomes and a shared initiative tracker backed by Firestore.
Why it mattersBuilt for a real weekly ritual, with persistence and interaction shaped around the table.
Native utility
A focused macOS application that keeps the display awake for a chosen window without changing global system settings.
Why it mattersA small, shippable utility with timed controls from ten minutes to twenty-four hours.
2022 — present
Taught online safety, privacy, password security, and digital citizenship to more than 100 students.