Rebecca Close
Staff Software Engineer at BuzzFeed
Euless, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRebecca Close is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of full-stack web development experience, currently building scalable publishing and advertising platforms at BuzzFeed. Grounded in both linguistics and computer science from UT Austin, she brings a rare combination of language-awareness and technical rigor to product and content engineering challenges. She excels at bridging front-end user experiences with robust back-end systems, often translating editorial needs into performant web architecture. Based in Euless, Texas, Rebecca is known for steady long-term ownership—having been with BuzzFeed since 2015—and for applying communication-focused insights from linguistics to improve team design discussions and user-facing copy.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
web-components10
formatting9
gulp-plugin9
parsing9
localdate6
pdo6
api6
php6
wordpress6
google-places-api6
regex6
java6
javascript6
mysql6
visual-editor4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
curseagain/amphtml
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019
AMP HTML source code, samples, and documentation. See below for more info.
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
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curseagain/static-bfp-product-subbuzz-ad
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 day
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