Summary
Liz Starin is a product-driven senior full-stack engineer with 11 years of professional experience and 7+ years focused in political tech, building voter-facing and election-administration systems like iwillvote.com and the Voting Information Project. She combines a strong Ruby/Clojure/JavaScript skillset with hands-on work in data pipelines, dashboards, SMS tooling, and web apps to deliver reliable voter services at scale. Based in New York, she now contributes at Scale to Win while maintaining a parallel creative career as a published children's book illustrator represented by Andrea Brown Literary Agency. Her background in geophysics and scientific data visualization informs a careful, data-centric approach to product design and engineering. Colleagues rely on her ability to translate complex civic requirements into polished, user-focused applications that work under intense operational constraints.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA geophysics, BA geophysics at Brown University
Hacker School
illustration printmaking, illustration printmaking at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany
App Academy
MA illustration, MA illustration at Fashion Institute of Technology
English, German