Summary
Barbara 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.
14 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at University of Washington