Larissa Feng
Software Developer at Brilliant
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLarissa Feng is a Vancouver-based software developer and manager with 11 years of experience building reliable product and platform systems across startups and big tech. She blends hands-on engineering—spanning infrastructure as code, containerization, networking and backend development—with people leadership and onboarding practice, having driven Terraform adoption and managed HashiCorp stack operations in production at Wealthsimple. Her background includes production engineering at Facebook (real-time DDoS mitigation) and internships at Microsoft, Shopify and Demonware, reflecting strong systems, cloud and low-level skills. Larissa also contributes to open-source tooling, improving UX and CLI flexibility for projects like an Instant Music Downloader. After a sabbatical spent recharging in Vancouver and picking up mobility-focused hobbies, she now applies a pragmatic, user-focused approach to shipping clean, maintainable systems at Brilliant. Colleagues describe her as a manager who still enjoys writing code and solving tricky operational problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science & Linguistics, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science & Linguistics at The University of British Columbia
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Github Skills (5)
argparse10
youtube-dl10
command-line-interface10
python10
command-line10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yask123/Instant-Music-Downloader
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
🎷 Downloads Music From The Web
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Larissa significantly enhanced the `instant-music-downloader` repository by implementing command-line argument parsing and functionality. They added options for single song downloads, downloading lists of songs from a file or command-line list, and a quiet mode to suppress output. These changes reflect a focus on improving the user interface and making the tool more flexible for various use cases, as well as addressing code conflicts.
pythonmp3youtubemetrolyricsmusic
mondayrain/learn-something
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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