Lizzie Gooding
Team Leader, Engineering at Rocket Money
Vermont, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLizzie Gooding is a Team Leader in Engineering with a decade of experience building resilient backend systems and leading teams that improve economic stability and mobility. She combines hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure, serverless microservices, API design, and observability—particularly in geospatial and fintech domains—to ship high-impact products at scale. Lizzie has repeatedly taken critical systems from prototype to production, including scaling a billing engine to support 300K+ students and launching a Flexible Rent service to 10,000 customers in eight months. She partners closely with product and stakeholders, practices strong delivery discipline, and mentors engineers to sustain operational excellence and on-call readiness. Based in Vermont, she brings an uncommon mix of GIS-informed data intuition and rigorous backend engineering that helps translate spatial and financial needs into reliable services.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Geography, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Geography at Middlebury CollegeSpanish Summer Language Program, Spanish Summer Language Program at Dartmouth CollegeSummer Term Computer Science, Summer Term Computer Science at University of Rhode IslandNorth Kingstown Senior High SchoolGeography, Geography at Universidad de Playa AnchaIntermediate Software Development Beginner Software Development, Intermediate Software Development Beginner Software Development at Code Fellows
English, Spanish
Github Skills (46)
geofencing10
geocoder10
geodata10
geocoding10
mvt10
elevation10
geofence10
points10
mapbox-vector-tile9
javascript9
openstreetmap9
geospatial9
gis9
geo9
cli9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lizziegooding/Housing-Affordability
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:80 PRs, 56 pushes, 85 branches in 6 days
javascriptreactcode-301
lizziegooding/number-trivia
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
API service to store and retrieve number-based trivia questions
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 5 months
apicheeriorapidapinodejsapi-service
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