haley whitman
Fullstack software engineer creating impactful products by combining stakeholder insights, thoughtful discovery, and technical innovation.
- I am a Senior Software Engineer at Palo Alto Software developing the web application for LivePlan that helps entrepreneurs create business plans, forecast finances, and track business performance.
- I helped develop a plug-in-play end cryptographic unit (ECU) for high-speed data streams for radios in military aircraft and managed the software documentation for the NSA type 1 certification process.
- I have assisted with the development and implementation for secure mission assured architecture for unmanned vehicles.
- I created HARDEN an engineering toolkit that implements the Agile Resilient Embedded System (ARES) methodology that helps evaluate and quantify security improvements for mission critical systems.
- With a participatory design process, I helped create unique assistive technology to allow women with Rett syndrome to manage their own media-playing devices.
work experience
In January 2022, I switched to being a fullstack software engineer working on LivePlan. I was promoted in 2023 as a Senior Software Engineer. I am currently part of the product discovery team and work directly with our users to create and evaluate new features that support business planning and forecasting for small businesses across the globe.
From May 2017 to October of 2020 I was part of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, first as an intern, then Assistant Technical Staff, and then finally as an Associate Technical Staff. During this time I was an embedded device engineer and developed, managed, and assisted in the creation and delivery of military radios and UAVs as well as presented at technical conferences.
From May 2016 to May 2017 I did undergraduate research under Dr. Anthony Hornof where we developed assistive technology for women with Rett Syndrome (wikipedia). My favorite device that came out of this work was a "video bucket" where our particpant could throw any DVD case in her collection into a bowl and have it play automatically on her TV.
From November 2015 to May 2016 I did undergraduate research under Dr. Michel Kinsy where we developed a MIPS processor (wikipedia) on a Altera Cyclone V FPGA.
Prior to this, my non-computer science background involved working with local school districts on the grounds and paint crew, as well as working in my highschool years with Northwest Youth Corps on trail crews over the summer in Oregon and Idaho.
tech stack that I currently enjoy
I usually reach for using the following building blocks (and luckily get to use most day-to-day at work):
| Categories | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Languages | TypeScript, Python, Java |
| Frameworks | React, Next.js |
| Databases | PostgreSQL, Supabase |
| Tools & Platforms | Git, Docker, AWS, Vercel, Netlify, Vite |
| Frontend Libraries | TanStack Table/Query/Router, Zod, Radix UI, Tailwind CSS, Playwright |
| Other | CI/CD, Product Discovery |
publications
- "Designing for the 'Universe of One' Personalized Interactive Media Systems for People with the Severe Cognitive Impairment Associated with Rett Syndrome."Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017.
- “HARDEN: A High Assurance Design Environment.”2019 GOMACTech Conference on AI and Cybersecurity, 2019.
- "Mission Assurance: Beyond Secure Processing."2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security Companion (QRS-C), IEEE, 2018.
- "Designing Secure and Resilient Embedded Avionics Systems."2018 IEEE Cybersecurity Development (SecDev), IEEE, 2018.
- "Functionality and Security Co-Design Environment for Embedded Systems."2018 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), IEEE, 2018.