Melissa Gonzalez
Staff Software Engineer at Yum! Brands
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMelissa Gonzalez is a Staff Software Engineer in Chicago with eight years of professional experience building web applications and services for Yum! Brands. She brings a distinctive blend of biomedical research rigor and practical software engineering, holding a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern and completing a professional coding bootcamp. Proficient across the full stack—Node.js, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React/Vue, SQL, and the Elastic stack—she excels at translating complex domain requirements into reliable, data-driven solutions. At Yum! she progressed from Software Engineer to Staff Engineer, demonstrating strong project ownership, team collaboration, and mentorship. Known for clear problem-solving and strong data analysis instincts, she often leverages her research background to drive measurable improvements in system reliability and performance. Based in Chicago, she thrives at the intersection of research discipline and production engineering.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Actualize Coding BootcampBS Biomedical Engineering, BS Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern UniversityGithub contributions (5)
melissacgonzalez/veterans-work
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 48 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
melissacgonzalez/capstone-app
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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