Summary
Marla Zeschin is a Senior Software Engineer and technical leader with 11 years of experience building and hardening backend services across startups and mid-size companies from Denver. She has led migrations, cross-training, and API redesigns that reduced dependencies and production risk, and delivered measurable cost and uptime improvements (for example a multi-version Redis upgrade that cut $10k/year and raised uptime at Mode). Comfortable both coding and coaching, Marla has staffed high-profile consulting engagements, managed engineering teams, and served as an engineering manager guiding career growth and delivery. Her stack spans Ruby/Rails, Clojure, PostgreSQL, AWS and Terraform, and she’s known for pragmatic system upgrades and tooling to prevent regressions. Beyond day-to-day engineering she presents at conferences and helps organize community events, blending technical depth with civic-minded community leadership.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Political Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Political Science at Northwestern University
Certificate in Backend Engineering, Certificate in Backend Engineering at Turing School of Software & Design