Cristina Birkel
Senior Backend Developer at Wider Circle
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCristina Birkel is a Senior Backend Developer with eight years of experience building reliable, data-driven systems and APIs, currently based in Cleveland. She has strong Go and Postgres expertise from contributing to Sourcegraph’s Code Insights—adding metrics, refining retry logic, and improving dashboard and insight management for a widely used code search and AI platform. Her background spans full-stack and ML infrastructure work at iFIT, where she built AWS-based pipelines and led a web chapter while still coding half her time. Cristina brings practical experience modernizing legacy frontends into React and shipping analytics features, plus early-career roots in C#, Xamarin, and systems testing at Microsoft. Known for working effectively in remote, high-agency environments, she balances hands-on engineering with mentorship and product-focused thinking. An attention to operational robustness and measurable observability distinguishes her contributions to open-source and commercial systems alike.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (7)
go10
back-end-development10
wpgraphql9
postgresql9
wordpress-graphql9
graphql9
database-management9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sourcegraph/sourcegraph-public-snapshot
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
Code AI platform with Code Search & Cody
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:251 reviews, 144 commits, 159 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Cristina primarily contributed to the Sourcegraph platform's code insights functionality. Their commits focused on refining the system's robustness and stability. Specifically, they adjusted retry configurations for database queries, added metrics for the commit indexer, and introduced site configuration values for the commit indexer interval. The user also implemented features around dashboard management and insights, including the creation, deletion, and update of dashboards and insight views.
sourcegraphcode-generationrepo-type-maindeveloper-toolslsif-enabled
CristinaBirkel/Hawke-Music
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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