Summary
Elif Sezgin is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building scalable frontend and full-stack applications using React, TypeScript, and Python. She has driven product-focused engineering work across analytics and reporting, notably building an AI-driven Predictive Audiences UI and a metrics-definition editing workflow that reduced engineering dependency at Iterable. Comfortable owning end-to-end projects, she has implemented full-stack solutions that span Scala backends, Django APIs, performance optimizations, and core component libraries to speed UI delivery. Her background in molecular biology and early bioinformatics work gives her a data-first mindset and attention to correctness that shows up in analytics and tooling projects. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex product needs into maintainable code and to empower non-engineering stakeholders through thoughtful admin tooling. Now at Taut, she continues to focus on impactful user experiences and developer productivity.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at App Academy
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Python on Django, Python on Django at Linux Summer Camp
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Molecular Biology and Genetics at Boğaziçi University
Turkish, English, French, German