Bridget Went
Founding Fullstack Engineer at Lanai
Truckee, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBridget Went is a founding fullstack engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-performance systems and scaling security-focused pipelines. She has led performance and platform efforts at Okta and Material Security, owning throughput, resiliency, and efficiency for core services and email security ingestion pipelines. Now based in Truckee, CA, she blends hands-on backend and fullstack development with technical leadership at early-stage startups. A mathematician by training, she brings a data-oriented, curiosity-driven approach to debugging hard problems and optimizing systems. Beyond shipping software, she’s an active advocate for inclusivity in tech and has a history of interdisciplinary projects—from VR simulations to image-rendering research—that reveal a practical creativity not always obvious from job titles alone.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaMarin AcademyComputer Science - HTML CSS Python Ruby, Computer Science - HTML CSS Python Ruby at CodecademyBachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Bowdoin College
Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
openvr10
render10
openxr10
oculus-quest9
client-server9
oculus9
virtual-reality8
frank8
gltf7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bwent/hifi
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:82 pushes, 20 branches in 1 month
hiringreportingvirtual-worldsworklistsan-francisco
imrimt/symmetryworks-research-bowdoin
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:102 commits, 2 PRs, 93 pushes in 2 months
franksummer
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