Summary
Madi Lippmann is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco who transitioned from a career as a classical musician to software engineering, bringing four years of professional engineering experience and a musician’s discipline for structure and nuance. At Fieldguide she progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer, applying meticulous operational planning skills honed producing live, PBS-broadcasted concerts to shipping reliable features in a fast-paced product environment. Her background in music administration and festival operations—managing budgets, logistics for large ensembles, and broadcasted performances—gives her uncommon strengths in cross-team coordination, event-driven thinking, and attention to detail. Trained at App Academy and with advanced composition credentials from Carnegie Mellon, she blends formal engineering training with creative systems thinking. She’s as comfortable parsing complex codebases as she is preparing orchestra scores to professional standards, translating performance-oriented processes into pragmatic engineering workflows.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Advanced Music Studies Certificate, Composition, Advanced Music Studies Certificate, Composition at Carnegie Mellon University
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at App Academy
Italian