Becca Liss
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorBecca Liss is a senior software engineer with 13 years of full-stack experience spanning frontend, backend, and platform infrastructure, based in New York. At Datadog since 2024, she continues to drive scalable, reliable systems, following impactful roles at VTS where she built a Go-based services architecture and deployed an Istio service mesh across multiple Kubernetes clusters. She spearheaded TypeScript adoption across the organization, migrating a large portion of JavaScript to TypeScript and leading full-stack work on React and Rails to enter a new market. Becca also created infrastructure tooling, including a TypeScript/Terraform library for managing service infrastructure, a multi-language monorepo, and a Go-based messaging service to replace a third-party email provider, yielding cost savings. Her early career includes revamping email notifications for OpenHatch and building a load-testing platform at Paperless Post, underscoring a track record of performance, maintainability, and practical experimentation. She holds a BA in Psychology from Vassar College, which informs a collaborative, user-centric approach to building scalable software.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
django210
python10
django10
testing9
database-migration9
database-migrations9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openhatch/oh-mainline
Oct 2012 - Oct 2012
The code that runs openhatch.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Becca primarily refactored and updated code related to email notifications within the OpenHatch project. They renamed files and variables, particularly those dealing with "weekly" email functionalities, to reflect a more general "periodically" approach. The changes included modifications to the database models, views, and tests to accommodate the updated email sending frequency and content. Overall, the contributions streamlined the notification system.
runs
becdot/Ravelry-project
Jul 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:16 commits in 5 months
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