Masha Lifshin
Staff Software Engineer at Mozilla
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolMasha Lifshin is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berkeley with over a decade of hands-on experience building backend, full‑stack, infrastructure, and UX solutions while leading and mentoring high-performing teams. She has progressed from early roles at Google to founding engineering positions and technical leadership at startups before joining Mozilla, demonstrating both startup grit and product-scale engineering chops. A former lead web development instructor and MFA-trained artist, Masha brings a rare blend of design sensibility and technical depth that informs pragmatic, user-centered systems. She’s known for transforming teams through inclusive leadership and education, and for moving fluidly between code, UX, and teaching to deliver high-quality software.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Fine/Studio Arts General, Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Fine/Studio Arts General at UCSB Art DepartmentBachelor of Arts (BA) Art and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Art and Computer Science at Williams College
English, Russian, French
Github Skills (19)
archives10
warc10
slack-integration9
python9
docker9
php8
github-app8
conversations7
docker-machine6
slack5
macos2
hypervisor2
maintenance1
executable1
unix1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mashalifshin/mashalifshin
Mar 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 review, 67 PRs, 80 pushes in 10 years 2 months
Pocket/web-client
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
The user facing web client for Pocket
Contributions:11 reviews, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 month
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