Moses Berra
Senior Software Engineer at Khan Academy
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMoses Berra is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, full‑stack products for remote-first, agile teams. He blends product engineering discipline with hands-on work across Svelte/TypeScript frontends and Ruby on Rails backends to deliver well-tested, maintainable solutions. At eSpark Learning he replaced a $200k/year third‑party quizzing engine with an in-house system and helped build a shared component library that accelerated cross‑team development. He has strong operational instincts from a prior reliability role at Optiver and a track record of shipping analytics, auth, and AI moderation improvements that reduced risk and cost. Comfortable mentoring engineers and collaborating with design and product, Moses also contributes to roadmaps and QA workflows, favoring practical tradeoffs that balance delivery speed with long‑term reliability. Based in Los Angeles and trained at the University of Chicago, he thrives on turning user needs into pragmatic, scalable features.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Chicago
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
cordova10
apache-cordova10
java9
nodejs9
objective-c9
inappbrowser9
ios8
javascript8
mobile8
android8
phonegap4
recycling3
crowdsourcing2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mrbberra/avocado
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
A price index for avocados in Hyde Park, based on @hpavocadoprice tweets.
Contributions:1 PR, 61 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
indexmlsparkhydetwitter
mrbberra/website
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
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