Maggie Lou
Software Engineer at BuildBuddy
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMaggie Lou is a software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable backend and full‑stack systems in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has shipped production services at companies like Thumbtack and BuildBuddy, contributing to high-throughput microservices, data pipelines, and developer-facing tooling using Go, TypeScript, Kafka, Airflow, and GraphQL. At BuildBuddy she’s contributed to an open-source Bazel remote build and caching platform, improving cache management, build event visibility, and metadata APIs—work that surfaces in tooling used by large CI workflows. Maggie combines hands-on bug fixes and feature work with a systems-level view of reliability and performance, and maintains a public portfolio of personal projects that demonstrate practical engineering curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Northwestern University
Github Skills (12)
caching10
build-tools10
go10
bazel10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
grpc8
kubernetes6
typescripts6
typescript6
kubernetes-pods6
typescript-types6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
buildbuddy-io/buildbuddy
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
BuildBuddy is an open source Bazel build event viewer, result store, remote cache, and remote build execution platform.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1018 reviews, 226 commits, 1236 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Maggie primarily contributed to the BuildBuddy project by fixing bugs and implementing enhancements related to the caching and build event viewing features. They modified code related to the cache scoreboard popover, progress event logging, and cache scorecard writing. Furthermore, the user added features to delete artifacts from the cache and worked on improvements to the metadata API.
protobufgrpcresults-viewerremote-buildbazel-build
maggie-lou/firecracker
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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