Lindsey Bieda
Engineering Manager at LaunchDarkly
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLindsey Bieda is an engineering manager with 17 years of experience building and scaling developer-focused products, currently leading feature management foundations at LaunchDarkly. She has led distributed teams at GitHub—creating Copilot integrations, launching GitHub Models, and running cross-continental squads—while also shipping product work at Stitch Fix and Articulate. Lindsey blends hands-on engineering (from Python backend plugins to front-end CSS fixes) with people leadership, mentoring engineers to promotions and reorganizing teams during major rollouts. She’s active in the community and volunteer teaching with Girl Develop It, and her GitHub work includes playful but practical projects like a tarot lookup plugin for a Python IRC bot that demonstrates careful API integration and error handling. Known for turning messy codebases into modular, maintainable systems, she brings a pragmatic, user-focused approach to shipping complex features. Based in California, she pairs a Master’s in Computer Science with a knack for balancing technical depth and strong team stewardship.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (9)
css10
apim10
http10
api10
front-end-development10
python10
error-handling9
html9
git7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
hotsh/rstat.us
Mar 2011 - Jan 2012
Simple microblogging network based on the ostatus protocol.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:86 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Lindsey primarily focused on front-end development, implementing and modifying CSS for the project. They created and styled button elements using CSS3 and incorporated various icons. They also addressed CSS issues to fix the display of input fields and avatars in different browsers. Additionally, the user implemented pagination for the user list view.
dokkumicrobloggingprogressive-web-appsostatus
rmmh/skybot
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Python IRC bot
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Lindsey primarily contributed to the development of a tarot card lookup feature within the Python IRC bot. They implemented and refined the `tarot.py` plugin, which interacts with a tarot API to retrieve card information. Their work involved initial implementation, updates to the API interaction, error handling, and formatting of the output. Several iterations of the code were made to correct errors and enhance the functionality.
irc-botpythonbotpython3irc
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