Lizzie Paquette
Staff Software Engineer at Brex
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLizzie Paquette is a Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience building production software at Brex, where she progressed from Software Engineer to Staff since 2018. Her background blends compiler and programming-language work—from research converting Haskell to dataflow at Columbia and an internship on Facebook's Hack compiler team—to practical product engineering at a fast-moving fintech. She has a strong foundation in math and CS (Wesleyan and Columbia Engineering), a history of teaching and mentoring across university courses and outreach programs, and a habit of translating research ideas into working code. Actively seeking to move into climate tech and social-good applications, she brings both deep technical rigor and a demonstrated ability to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics Computer Science Neuroscience and Behavior, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics Computer Science Neuroscience and Behavior at Wesleyan UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at Columbia Engineering
English
Github Skills (27)
elixir10
return-value10
protocol-buffers9
serialization9
rest9
rpc9
proto9
protobuf9
grpc9
http8
protoc8
middleware8
json7
http-client7
hex6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
brexhq/protobuf-elixir
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
A pure Elixir implementation of Google Protobuf
Contributions:6 reviews, 55 commits, 33 PRs in 9 months
elixirprotobuf
brexhq/grpc-elixir
Jan 2020 - Feb 2021
The Elixir implementation of gRPC
Contributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year
elixirgrpc
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