Seth Lifland
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Clean Power Research
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSeth Lifland is a Senior Software Engineering Manager in Seattle with 11 years of full‑stack engineering experience and a track record of blending hands‑on development with team leadership. At Clean Power Research he splits time between individual contributions—design, implementation, and infrastructure—and managing a core team of five while co-owning outcomes for a 13‑engineer organization. His background includes building web SDK features at Microsoft, contributing front‑end audio call UI and TypeScript refactors to the Skype Web SDK, and shipping full‑stack applications for utility-scale PV integration. A Yale CS graduate who progressed from individual contributor to manager, he brings pragmatic code craftsmanship together with operational ownership. Peers describe him as a leader who still commits code and prioritizes shipping usable systems over pure design perfection.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science - with distinction, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science - with distinction at Yale UniversityWayland High School
Chinese
Github Skills (5)
html10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OfficeDev/skype-docs
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
This repository contains the content of the Skype Web SDK documentation. To review your PR, contact lindalu@microsoft.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:149 commits, 49 PRs, 105 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Seth refactored and added code to audio call samples within the Skype Web SDK documentation repository. The contributions focused on implementing and refactoring the user interface for audio call features like hold and resume. The code changes involved modifying HTML and TypeScript files related to audio call functionality and UI components to integrate within the existing framework.
web-sdkskypesdkreviewsdk-documentation
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