Quenby Mitchell
Staff Platform Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolQuenby Mitchell is a Staff Platform Engineer based in Basalt, Colorado with a 25+-year software industry pedigree and over a decade in senior engineering and management roles building cloud-native platforms and developer tooling. She has led teams from architect to CTO-level roles, modernizing systems with serverless architectures, Terraform-driven deployments, and testable front-end patterns (React/Redux, Hooks, Storybook) while fostering behavior-driven development across organizations. Her hands-on contributions to notable open-source tooling include implementing JWT authorizers and robust integration tests for the widely used serverless-offline project, highlighting deep expertise in API security and serverless HTTP workflows. Known for translating complex domain needs into single sources of truth (DSLs, metadata-driven generation) and for mentoring engineers, she balances strategic leadership with pragmatic, production-focused engineering.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Math, BS Computer Science Math at Trinity University
Github Skills (15)
jtest10
web-token10
hapi10
api-security10
aws-apigateway10
javascript10
nodejs10
jestjs10
serverless-framework10
jsonwebtoken10
aws-api-gateway-v210
jwt10
jes10
http-api9
cicd3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dherault/serverless-offline
Jun 2020 - Feb 2022
Emulate AWS λ and API Gateway locally when developing your Serverless project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Quenby contributed significantly to the `serverless-offline` project, focusing on implementing JWT (JSON Web Token) authorizers for AWS HTTP APIs. They added JWT authentication schemes, integrating them into the Hapi.js server, and wrote integration tests to validate various JWT scenarios, including expired tokens and incorrect issuer URLs. The user's work involved creating and configuring authorization strategies for HTTP endpoints, demonstrating expertise in API security and serverless architecture. The user also implemented configuration for HTTP API CORS configurations and added operationId to the request context.
api-gatewayapidevelopinglambda-functionsaws-lambda
travelboss/react-big-calendar
Apr 2019 - Feb 2021
gcal/outlook like calendar component
Contributions:1 review, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
reactcalendar-componentcalendaroutlookcalendar-widget
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