Lizzie Shipton
Freelance Writer at Elizabeth Shipton
California, United States
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Top SchoolLizzie Shipton is a former senior software engineer turned freelance writer who translates complex engineering topics into clear, engaging articles, tutorials, and e-books. With a decade of hands-on experience at Silicon Valley startups and roles across full-stack engineering, she combines practical technical depth with a knack for storytelling that makes tough concepts approachable—and occasionally fun. Her background spans product work at Udacity and Saga, hands-on front-end and backend development, and documented experience integrating hardware workflows, which informs her technical writing with real-world engineering trade-offs. Based in California, she leverages a strong foundation in computer software engineering plus a music and linguistics education to bring creativity and precision to developer-focused content and career advice.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack ReactorUniversity of California, San DiegoAssociate of Arts (A.A.), Music, GPA: 4.0, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Music, GPA: 4.0 at Cabrillo College
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
react8
gatsby7
react-apollo7
audio7
audio-player7
graphql7
frontend6
chromecast6
contentful6
android6
fastest6
icon-pack6
heroicons6
react-native6
netlify6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lizzieshipwreck/lizshipton-author-website
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:239 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
lizzieshipton/mApper-1
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:18 pushes in 6 days
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