Carol Hansen
Software Engineer at Muck Rack
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolCarol Hansen is a senior backend software engineer with 14 years of experience who focuses on building simple, high-performance systems and improving developer workflows. Currently on Muck Rack's DevOps team, she strengthens ETL pipelines, expands observability, and builds platform tools other engineers rely on. Her background includes leading Mapbox's uploads pipeline and improving CI/test infrastructure for embedded systems at SRAM, giving her a strong mix of large-scale data processing, performance engineering, and hardware-adjacent tooling. Known for knowledge sharing and pragmatic best practices, she prefers low-maintenance solutions that scale. Based in Chicago and using she/they pronouns, Carol brings an engineer-first perspective that prioritizes developer experience as much as system reliability.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, International Studies, Bachelor of Arts, International Studies at DePaul UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Northeastern Illinois University
Spanish
Github Skills (163)
tilemap10
tiles10
mapbox-gl10
null-safety10
geojson10
specification10
sailfishos10
openstreetmap10
qt10
vector-tiles10
mapnik10
apt10
nodejs10
geopackage10
mvt10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mapbox/gzip-hpp
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
Gzip header-only C++ library
Contributions:14 PRs, 55 pushes, 12 branches in 5 years 5 months
cppheaderc-libraryheader-onlygzip
GretaCB/Routing-Project
Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
GSoC 2012 Neo4j and OSM Routing
Contributions:59 commits, 1 push in 2 months
gsocroutingneo4josmrdf
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