Lydia Hallie is a software engineer and developer advocate with nine years of hands-on experience building web systems in JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, and Serverless/AWS environments, currently based in San Francisco. She combines production engineering—shipping front-end apps and testing infrastructure for notable projects like Prisma—with developer experience leadership roles at Vercel and Bun and a current technical role at Anthropic. An international speaker, course instructor, and mentor, Lydia has grown a sizable social audience by translating deep technical work into accessible content and helping developers upskill weekly. Her work spans from UI-focused React e-commerce builds to CI/CD and test automation contributions, reflecting an unusual blend of polish in UX and rigor in tooling. She started building software at 14 and runs a consultancy that has integrated modern stacks (Next.js, Expo, Lambda, DynamoDB) for clients, underscoring both entrepreneurial drive and practical delivery.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
JavaScript Developer Computer Software Engineering, JavaScript Developer Computer Software Engineering at The Iron Yard
:purse: Personal Project: E-Commerce website with React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Lydia primarily focused on developing the front-end of an e-commerce website using React. They implemented core UI components, including a navigation bar, header, product listings, and a shopping cart. The commits demonstrate the user's work in structuring the website's layout, integrating product data, and enhancing the user interface with features like product displays and a cart summary. The user also incorporated routing and navigation functionalities.
💾 Database Tools incl. ORM, Migrations and Admin UI (Postgres, MySQL & MongoDB) [deprecated]
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 6 days
Contributions summary:Lydia primarily focused on implementing and extending the testing infrastructure for the Prisma project. They added compilation tests for both Typescript and Flow, ensuring code quality and type safety. Additionally, they introduced query generation tests, demonstrating a focus on thorough testing of the project's core functionalities. Finally, the user modified the CI/CD pipeline to test the project examples.
mysql-mongodbadminmysqlserverlesssql
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Lydia Hallie - Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic