Anna Scholtz
Senior Staff Data Engineer
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAnna Scholtz is a Senior Staff Data Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms, currently leading data platform strategy and telemetry ingestion at Mozilla from Vancouver. She specializes in building robust ETL tooling, data quality frameworks, and cost-optimized cloud infrastructure—managing pipelines that process over 80 TB daily and enabling organization-wide BI with Looker. A hands-on engineer and mentor, she created Mozilla’s Metric Hub and main bigquery-etl tooling used by dozens of teams, and has deep experience integrating data observability (Bigeye) and Fivetran sources. Beyond data engineering, Anna contributes to notable open-source projects in Rust and editor tooling, reflecting a rare blend of backend, frontend, and systems-level expertise.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor's Degree Applied Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Applied Computer Science at Technische Universität ChemnitzElectrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University
German, English, Dutch
Github Skills (23)
web-widgets10
edelivery10
widgets10
python10
user-interface10
continuous-delivery10
ui-design10
interface-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
swift10
macos10
rust10
text-editing10
react10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
xi-editor/xi-mac
Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
The xi-editor mac frontend.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:134 commits, 44 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Anna primarily contributed to the Mac frontend of the xi-editor. They implemented new functionality for text editing, including the addition of uppercase/lowercase conversion, and commands for line and word selection via gestures. Furthermore, the user integrated find and replace functionality, adding features like multiple search queries and support for the "add next to selection" feature. They also worked on the UI for the search bar and its controls.
macfrontendappkitmacoseditor
xi-editor/xi-editor
Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:189 commits, 78 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Anna primarily contributed to implementing and extending core editor functionalities within the Rust-based `xi-editor` project. Their work involved adding features such as uppercase/lowercase transformations and implementing methods for line and word selections. They refactored code and added new RPC commands and refactored existing ones to enhance the capabilities of the editor's text manipulation features. These modifications improved the user experience by enhancing the features available within the editor itself.
rustbackendeditor
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