Nishiki Liu is a Senior Software Engineer based in the Los Angeles area with 11 years of experience building resilient, maintainable web applications across startups and agencies. Currently at Atomic, she blends full-stack craftsmanship with a focus on code quality—evident from open-source contributions that modernize and refactor legacy Rails code for a mental-health communication app. Her background spans product-focused roles at Litmus, Roundtrip, and creative/agency work, giving her a practical mix of engineering rigor and UX sensibility. She advocates for software that does social good, pairing pragmatic engineering with an open-source mindset. Colleagues rely on her to clean up technical debt, replace brittle patterns with robust associations, and keep test suites and style linters in good shape.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at University of Richmond
Free, open source mental health communication web app to share experiences with loved ones
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:34 commits, 9 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Nishiki primarily focused on improving the codebase's quality and maintainability. Their contributions include refactoring code by replacing deprecated methods, resolving RuboCop errors across mailers, helpers, and uploaders. They also made changes to feature tests and replaced `Strategy.where` and `Moment.where` calls with association calls, indicating a focus on code cleanup and optimization. Furthermore, they addressed view-related issues, enhancing code consistency and replacing outdated syntax.
Contributions:2 commits, 95 PRs, 127 pushes in 26 days
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