Risa B
Lead Engineer at Klaviyo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRisa B is a Lead Engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years of hands-on experience building and scaling Rails and Postgres-driven applications. A committed pair-programming advocate, they blend deep backend expertise with strong communication, mentoring, and public speaking skills honed across senior and managerial roles at Klaviyo and multiple startups. Risa has a track record of moving between individual contributor and leadership positions, consulting independently on Rails projects while also driving engineering teams. Their background includes systems testing at Northrop Grumman and a US government security clearance, reflecting comfort with high-assurance environments as well as fast-paced product development. Trained originally in biology before pivoting to computer science, they bring a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach to problem solving and developer education.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
AS Computer Science, AS Computer Science at Montgomery County Community CollegeBS Biology, BS Biology at Rochester Institute of Technology
Japanese, English
Github Skills (98)
currency10
marketplace10
spree9
testing9
ruby9
cart9
multi-tenant9
rails9
placement9
graph9
oms9
cli8
directive8
javascript8
ruby-on-rails8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rbatta/img_blog
Sep 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:106 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
rbatta/rbatta.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 3 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrails-blogruby
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