Nina Schiff
Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNina Schiff is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years building high-performance backend systems at top-tier tech companies including Stripe, Meta, and AWS, now based in San Francisco. She combines a strong academic foundation—Computer Science degrees with distinction from the University of Cape Town—with deep practical expertise in network and systems engineering, evidenced by contributions to Facebook’s widely used fboss project (notably QoS and QSFP transceiver configuration). Nina excels at refactoring and designing robust APIs for hardware-software integration and has led complex infrastructure work at scale as a principal engineer. Originally from Cape Town, she brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach and preferences for backend and systems work (not frontend or sourcing outreach).
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Psychology, Computer Science with Distinction and the Degree with Distinction, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science and Psychology, Computer Science with Distinction and the Degree with Distinction at University of Cape Town
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
thrift9
network-configuration9
qos8
automated-tests7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/fboss
Jul 2016 - May 2018
Facebook Open Switching System
Software for controlling network switches.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:103 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Nina primarily contributed to the fboss project by adding and modifying features related to Quality of Service (QoS) and QSFP (Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable) transceiver configuration. They added functionality to customize transceiver settings based on port speed, including setting and clearing CDR (Clock and Data Recovery) bits, and rate selection. They also implemented support for a QsfpService with an API that exposes current transceiver information. The user worked to refactor code to enhance port management.
facebookcontrollingswitchingsystem-softwareswitches
ninas/polar-hr
Nov 2022 - Feb 2026
Contributions:63 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
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