Elise Riley
Staff Engineer at ezCater
Lincoln, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElise Riley is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience who leads complex, cross-functional initiatives at ezCater, progressing there from Software Engineer to Senior and now Staff since 2018. She blends a solid Rails and JavaScript background with hands-on product work, having built APIs, migrated legacy systems, and contributed to React/Electron apps tied to physical devices. Elise has a knack for translating client-facing requirements into maintainable architectures, honed earlier in agencies and consultancies where she led teams and migrations. Her experience spans both consumer-facing product features and platform improvements, with practical exposure to headless CMS, real-time streaming receivers, and fitness-machine integrations. Based in Lincoln, Rhode Island, she pairs technical leadership with mentorship experience from teaching and apprenticeship roles. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who brings communications experience to engineering, making complex technical trade-offs understandable to stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Public Relations, Bachelor of Arts Public Relations at University of Rhode IslandLeadership Studies, Leadership Studies at URI Center for Student Leadership Development
Github Skills (10)
rspec8
lint7
testing7
static-analysis6
ruby6
rails5
rubocop5
recipe3
react3
web-application2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
EliseFitz15/aster_co
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:44 PRs, 98 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year
javascriptastercandle
EliseFitz15/psb-map
Jul 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:14 PRs, 40 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 7 months
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