Christina Stead
Senior Software Engineer at Square
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristina Stead is a Senior Software Engineer in Oakland with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and improving developer and analyst productivity. She has shipped features at scale for companies including Square and Lyft and contributes to notable open-source projects like Amundsen, where she implemented JIRA-integrated issue tracking, search badges, and Elasticsearch indices. A dedicated mentor and educator—active with Hackbright Academy and Girl Develop It—she pairs hands-on engineering with a knack for teaching and community organizing. Her background in both backend and frontend work and a BA in Computer Science and Economics give her a pragmatic, data-informed approach to solving product and platform problems. An often-overlooked strength is her blend of shipping reliability-focused infrastructure while crafting thoughtful UX improvements that surface data quality to end users.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, Economics, BA, Computer Science, Economics at UCSB
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
python10
amazon-elasticsearch10
discovery-service10
metadata10
amd10
discovery10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
front-end-development10
auto-discovery10
elasticsearch10
data-catalog10
issue-tracking10
react10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
amundsen-io/amundsenfrontendlibrary
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Front-end service library for Amundsen
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 14 PRs, 126 pushes in 28 days
Contributions summary:Christina primarily focused on enhancing the front-end user experience and functionality related to the issue tracking feature. They implemented the display of badges within search results, added status and priority information for data issues, and integrated a notification system for table owners when data issues are reported. Their work involved modifying React components, API endpoints, and Python code, indicating a full-stack approach. They also wrote and updated tests.
reactamundsenservice-libraryfront-endtypescript
amundsen-io/amundsen
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Amundsen is a metadata driven application for improving the productivity of data analysts, data scientists and engineers when interacting with data.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 28 days
Contributions summary:Christina primarily contributed to implementing features related to issue tracking within the Amundsen data catalog. They worked on integrating JIRA tickets, including creating connections, handling data issue reporting, and managing the Redux/Saga flow for issue views. Furthermore, the user added and modified tests for front-end and back-end components. The commits also involved setting up Elasticsearch indices and integrating badges into search results and data models.
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