Lisa Burns is a software engineer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building scalable cloud-native systems and developer tooling from the front-end to platform infrastructure. Based in San Francisco, she has led teams at VMware/Pivotal and shipped billing, usage metrics, and event-based architectures at LiveRamp using Rails, React, Kubernetes and modern data pipelines. She pairs hands-on contributions — including React UI work on the civic We Vote WebApp — with manager-level ownership of integrations, releases, and platform reliability. Her background in bioengineering (BS UCSD, MS Stanford) and early product roles give her a practiced intuition for translating domain needs into usable, production-ready software. Currently balancing technical work with a surprising creative side as the author of three editions of Moon Travel Galapagos Islands, she brings both engineering rigor and a storyteller’s attention to detail.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
M.S. Bioengineering, M.S. Bioengineering at Stanford University
We Vote's javascript (client-side) mobile website built with React/Flux. Twitter: @WeVote Apple Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/we-vote-voter-guide/id1347335726 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wevote.cordova&hl=en_US
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:76 commits, 80 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Lisa primarily contributed to the front-end of the We Vote web application, focusing on the creation and modification of React components. Their commits centered on adding and displaying office display names on candidate pages. They implemented features for organization details and support counts on candidate detail pages. Additionally, they introduced new components and refactored existing ones to improve the user interface and user experience within the application.
Contributions:98 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 7 months
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