Elizabeth Cox is a principal software engineer with eight years of experience specializing in cloud-native design, networking, and distributed systems, currently shaping runtime and routing infrastructure at Heroku. She has progressed through senior and lead roles at Heroku after building developer productivity and containerized deployment tooling for Disney Streaming/BAMTECH, giving her deep operational experience across AWS, Docker, and ECS. Elizabeth combines hands-on systems design with on-call incident leadership, driving migrations (EC2-classic to VPC) and protocol upgrades (TLS deprecation) that improve platform reliability and developer experience. Comfortable across full-stack and backend domains, she also has a strong foundation in algorithms and mentoring from early roles in academia and AT&T, where she contributed to large graph-backed APIs and taught peers and students.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High Technology High School
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Mathematics at Rutgers University
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