Liliana Matos
Senior Director, Engineering at 1stDibs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiliana Matos is a Senior Director of Engineering and seasoned front-end/full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building high-traffic web experiences using JavaScript, Node.js, React, GraphQL, and TypeScript. She has led distributed teams across the US, Europe, and India, driving internationalization, performance optimization, and migrations from legacy PHP monoliths to modern isomorphic JavaScript architectures. Her work spans both hands-on implementation—rewriting backends into GraphQL, introducing TypeScript for generated gRPC types, and CDN-level rate limiting—and strategic tooling like standardized A/B testing and image optimization pipelines. Colleagues rely on her to tackle tech debt, improve observability with Lighthouse/PageSpeed visualizations, and deliver scalable, maintainable UX-focused systems. Based in New York, she blends deep technical craft with product-minded leadership and a knack for incremental, low-risk modernization.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Union County Magnet High SchoolBachelor of Science in Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (77)
restify10
express-graphql10
javascript10
hapi10
api10
apollographql10
resolvers10
knexjs10
graphql-subscriptions10
graphql-js10
nodejs10
graphql-schema10
spec10
reference-implementation10
loader10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
1stdibs/apollo-server
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
🌍 GraphQL server for Express, Connect, Hapi, Koa and more
Contributions:6 PRs, 32 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year
apihapiexpresshapijsgraphql-server
DueProcessed/dueprocessed.com
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
dueprocessed.com source code
Contributions:40 reviews, 23 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 months
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