Mitchell Overfield

EXPERIENCE

Co-Founder and CTO

›Lekondo - AI Discovery Engine for Fashion↗
›Founded by longtime friends Yeng Tan and Mitchell Overfield, Lekondo combines deep technical expertise in AI and product with a surgical pulse on the way people express themselves online. Backed by a16z speedrun (SR005)

Dropbox Dash - Senior Software Engineer

›Command E → Dropbox Dash: led the technical integration of the acquired Command E product into Dropbox, unifying two production codebases with zero downtime and establishing the core technical foundation for Dropbox Dash. Pioneered component, state management, and analytics frameworks for all of Dash that enabled rapid 0→1 feature delivery across teams
›Architected a client-side action-queue pattern to overcome API limits and made Stack creation feel instant; the framework was adopted across surfaces and drove a 58% lift in Stack creation post-launch
›End-to-end ownership of a critical extension release blocker; isolated a Chrome service-worker versioning defect and partnered with Google to land the Chrome 120 fix, restoring releases
›Built metadata hydration and caching so saved links in Stacks stay in sync with source docs/sites; boosting engagement and reliability. Scoped and led an intern to deliver key components
›Designed and shipped the reusable pattern for Drag and Drop across all of Dash, which became the benchmark UX for multiple user-facing teams

Commercial Software Engineering - SDE 2

›Co-developed with Microsoft's largest customers to solve cutting edge problems. Our engagements covered the full spectrum of development, from design, Scrum, teaching & learning, communication, documentation, implementation, and integration
›Lead the MLOps workstream during a 6 month engagement - designing, implementing, and upskilling the customer's engineering team on our pipeline that managed the training of 6 models and their deployment to production through 7 environments
›Designed and implemented 2 of 7 C# containerized services in a computer vision engagement, resulting in a multithreaded queue design managed by docker-compose, surpassing the 5 second E2E time requirement. Upskilled the customer on multithreaded design and containerization

Commercial Software Engineering - Intern

›Wrote a blog post about my unique solution for managing chatbot conversation state (2018)↗
›Created a progressive web app using React and ASP.NET to set up ad-hoc Skype meetings online Designed and implemented React Redux + Typescript webapp with OAuth code flow grant (2017)

Co-Founder and CTO

›Sqzee provided a new approach to the class registration system by giving students easy access to the most important information through an intuitive, community-driven website
›Built the company to 12 employees and secured over $20,000 in funding

Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering