Akie Mejia
Back-end Developer at University of California, Berkeley
Davis, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkie Mejia is a back-end developer with a decade of software engineering experience building scalable APIs, database-backed services, and backend infrastructure in Scala and TypeScript. Currently contributing to UC Berkeley’s MyShake seismic network, she focuses on architecture, performance optimization, and reliable alerting systems for real-world, safety-critical mobile apps. Her background spans startups and research labs—co-founding an IoT platform at Ximity, building cashback and tracking platforms, and designing distributed data-sharing systems during a postdoc—bringing both product sensibility and academic rigor. Akie’s PhD work on distributed security for IoT and hands-on experience with Postgres, Slick, and parser combinators reveal a strong foundation in secure, distributed system design that informs her pragmatic engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Information Science, PhD, Information Science at Nara Institute of Science and TechnologyBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Ateneo de Manila University
Github Skills (71)
vim10
lua10
nvim10
api10
text-editor10
neovim10
mass9
redis9
extensibility9
spectral9
endpoints9
querying9
data-storage8
redis-client8
zio8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rfmejia/zio-redis
Nov 2020 - Sep 2023
A ZIO-based redis client
Contributions:30 pushes, 21 branches in 2 years 10 months
scalarediszioredis-client
rfmejia/nvim-juice
Dec 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:493 pushes, 3 branches, 4 issues in 3 years 8 months
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