Kharissa Smith
Software Engineer at Lyft
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKharissa Smith is a software engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience building customer-facing membership and loyalty systems, currently driving Loyalty & Memberships at Lyft. She combines startup grit—co‑founding Celador Software and shipping BodySmart’s 3,000+ exercise database—with product-focused internships at Figma, PagerDuty, and Lyft’s Memberships team. Recognized among the 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in 2015, she brings a blend of engineering craft and growth-minded product instincts from roles at Peek and Eventbrite. Comfortable across front-end and backend domains, she has a track record of turning user research and operational experience into polished, scalable features.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Oregon State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at University of California, RiversideMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (39)
pygame10
pure-python9
c-library8
python8
manim8
sdl8
game-dev8
opengl7
game-development7
programming-language6
react5
multimedia5
game-engine5
web-application4
flask-sqlalchemy4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
uiuc-cs427-f23-team20/termproject
Sep 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:5 reviews, 20 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 months
kharissa/internhacks-team11
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Full-stack web application using Python, Flask, and SQLAlchemy.
Contributions:1 review, 9 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 month
pythonpyramidsqlalchemyfull-stackflask
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