Barbara Raitz
CFO And Co-Founder at Treeland Trails, Inc.
Fort Jones, California, United States
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Top SchoolBarbara Raitz is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building scalable backend systems, APIs, and mobile infrastructure for companies like LinkedIn and Airbnb. As CFO and Co-Founder of Treeland Trails, she pairs deep technical expertise in Node.js, Ruby, and service-oriented architecture with hands-on stewardship of 5,000 acres focused on regenerative agriculture and rural revitalization. At Airbnb she led critical efforts to extract calendar logic into standalone services, modernize permission systems, and rewrite mobile and messaging stacks—work that improved reliability and unblocked multiple teams. She contributed to the open-source Rendr project, improving server-side architecture and middleware to enable shared client/server rendering. Known for pragmatic design, thorough testing, and the ability to tame legacy monoliths, she thrives where architecture, performance, and cross-team coordination intersect. Outside tech she balances an active outdoor life with entrepreneurial initiatives that blend ecological and economic impact.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at University of Washington
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Github Skills (10)
nodejs10
middleware10
javascript10
expressjs10
coffeescript10
backbonejs9
backbone9
logging9
configuration-management9
error-handling8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rendrjs/rendr
Nov 2012 - Apr 2013
Render your Backbone.js apps on the client and the server, using Node.js.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Barbara's contributions primarily focused on improving the server-side and overall architecture of the Rendr.js application. They implemented logging and middleware, enhancing request handling and performance monitoring. Furthermore, the user refactored and cleaned up server paths and configurations, while also stubbing out the error view. These changes suggest a focus on backend development, application configuration, and improved error handling.
renderbackbonenode-jsjavascriptexpress
braitz/AndroidSimpleTodo
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 22 days
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