Melissa Halfon
Staff Software Engineer at Etsy
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMelissa Halfon is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience blending mathematical rigor, product sensibility from founding a venture-backed edtech startup, and recent focus on data engineering. She built and scaled Vidcode’s web platform to support over a million students as Co-founder and CTO, then transitioned into senior data roles driving analytics and pipelines at Fairygodboss and The Muse before joining Etsy. Comfortable across the full stack and data stack, she pairs hands-on implementation (Node/Express/Mongo early on) with product leadership and hiring experience. A former quantitative developer and military cost analyst, she brings a disciplined, metrics-driven approach to designing scalable systems and translating analytic insight into product outcomes. Notably, her background in tutoring and mathematics underpins a talent for explaining complex technical ideas to cross-functional teams.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at University of Michigan
Spanish
Github Skills (112)
calculator9
computer-vision8
starlark8
github-api8
cropperjs8
terraform8
terraform-provider8
android8
unzip7
deep-learning7
pitch7
streaming7
video-processing7
audio-processing7
bitmap7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
konecnyna/ha-holiday-integration
May 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:5 releases, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
konecnyna/rpi_ac_outlet_control
Jan 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:113 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
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