Summary
Chelsea Pinka is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building web and mobile applications for retail and data-sensitive environments. She has led engineering teams at Inrupt and Starbucks, delivering TypeScript npm libraries, React Native apps, and Kubernetes-backed Node.js services while integrating security and CI/CD standards across projects. Known for mentoring and hiring, she pairs people leadership with hands-on work—improving on-call processes, running performance reviews, and shepherding open source contributions. Chelsea iterates quickly, using tools like Claude and CoPilot to accelerate development, and has a track record of applying metrics-driven design to influence user behavior and reduce waste.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Florida