Elizabeth Tackett
Lead Engineer II at Stitch Fix
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElizabeth Tackett is a Lead Engineer II with a decade of experience building and operating complex distributed systems, currently guiding teams at Stitch Fix in the Washington DC–Baltimore area. She combines hands-on backend engineering with automation expertise—evidenced by contributions to the widely used Homebrew project where she built Repology API parsers and automated package update workflows. Known for refactoring legacy code into modular systems, she excels at turning brittle integrations into reliable, maintainable services. Elizabeth pairs a CS degree from Oregon State with a business background from Marshall University, enabling her to bridge technical design and product-oriented decision making. Colleagues describe her as the kind of leader who prefers solving knotty technical problems herself first, then codifying those solutions so teams can move faster.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Oregon State UniversityBachelor of Business Administration - BBA Management, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Management at Marshall University
Github Skills (9)
homebrew10
automation10
automations10
package-management10
api-design10
ruby10
macos9
package-manager9
package-manager-tool9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/brew
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:66 commits, 1 PR, 15 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Elizabeth primarily contributed to the Homebrew project by developing and maintaining scripts related to package version comparison and update automation. This included the creation of an API parser to retrieve package information from Repology and Homebrew, along with the implementation of scripts to identify outdated packages and generate pull requests for updates. The user also refactored and restructured existing code by moving functionality into modules, specifically focusing on the Repology API interaction.
brewpackage-managerlinuxrubymissing
emctackett/todolist-project
Mar 2017 - Apr 2021
Ruby toy Todo List project
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
toyproject-listrubytodo-list-projecttodo-list
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