Carissa Brittain
Principal Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Haverford Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolCarissa Brittain is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable APIs, cloud services, and operational tooling across companies from startups to large enterprises. She currently leads engineering work at Akamai after progressing through senior roles at Linode, where she designed the Cloud Firewall API and drove an 80% reduction in DNS zone failures. Her background blends backend systems, GIS and geospatial processing, and DevOps—skills honed earlier at GeoDecisions, Azavea and in the USAF where she managed large, mission‑critical codebases. Carissa is a pragmatic mentor and process builder who formalized API specification and onboarding practices, instituted CI/CD pipelines, and coached interns and junior engineers. Based in Haverford Township, PA, she brings a conservation-minded perspective—rooted in forestry and GIS training—that influences her aim “to leave things in this world better than I found them.” Notably, she has repeatedly cut processing times and deployment risk through careful automation and cross-team collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
GIS Certificate Program, GIS Certificate Program at Penn State UniversityBS Forest Resources Management, BS Forest Resources Management at University of Montana
Github Skills (33)
qt10
gtk10
infrastructure10
api10
command-line-tool10
linode10
matplotlib9
visualization9
python9
payeezy9
conventions9
cli9
data-visualization9
risk-assessment8
data-science8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
furthemore/rams
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 months
ramsjavaregistrationcode-management
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