Liz Deininger
Engineering Manager at Adobe
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiz Deininger is an experienced engineering manager and full-stack developer based in San Francisco with 11 years of building scalable web applications and infrastructure. Currently leading engineering at Adobe and previously a computer scientist on Adobe Fonts, she blends backend expertise in Ruby, Go and Python with front-end skills in JavaScript and CSS to deliver production systems at scale on AWS. Liz has a track record of shipping APIs, managing deployments and observability, and mentoring and onboarding engineers across growing teams. Earlier roles at startup BabyList and Springest show her product-minded approach—she built customer-facing APIs, automated manual workflows, and evangelized developer communities. She pairs technical leadership with thoughtful communication and event speaking, and outside work she organizes a feminist book club and climbs indoors, reflecting a creative, service-oriented mindset. Her combination of hands-on engineering, ops experience, and public speaking makes her effective at translating complex technical problems into pragmatic team outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad Arabic Language (Modern Standard), Study Abroad Arabic Language (Modern Standard) at SOAS University of LondonMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Purdue UniversityBS Political Science, BS Political Science at Wellesley College
English, Spanish, Arabic, Dutch
Github Skills (59)
logger8
graph8
terraform7
lita7
aws7
logging6
logstash6
newrelic6
hashicorp6
sidekiq6
json6
deploying6
ssh5
terraform-module5
devops5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lizhubertz/blog
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:131 pushes in 2 years
radicalbarracuda/sf-feminist-book-club
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:28 PRs, 40 pushes, 24 branches in 13 days
book-club
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