Summary
Lillianna Levonick is a senior backend engineer based in New York with nine years of professional experience and seven years focused on building scalable, high-traffic services. She has driven major performance wins—most notably an 83% response-time improvement and infrastructure cost reductions at GOAT—by redesigning caching, decoupling monolith dependencies, and introducing event-driven pipelines. Comfortable across the stack, she moved from zero to production with DynamoDB, implemented resilient SQS-based syncs and debouncing, and codified observability and load-testing practices to keep systems healthy under peak load. At Udacity she improved latency, automated operational work, and led incident postmortems and mentorship efforts, demonstrating both hands-on coding and team leadership. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, she pairs a strong academic CS foundation with a habit of surfacing hidden failure modes—like identifying bot exploits—and turning them into durable safeguards.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Fox Lane High School
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Tufts University