Summary
Silvia Gheorghita is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience focused on building reliable, test-first systems and eliminating flaky tests across the stack. Currently at GitHub after senior roles at Heroku and engineering positions at Ripple, she brings deep expertise in test automation, release engineering, and deployment tooling using languages and tools from Scala and Node.js to Terraform and AWS. She champions early risk assessment, test design, pair programming, and strong team collaboration to improve software quality and delivery. Beyond engineering rigor, Silvia teaches and mentors—having co-taught front-end at Hackbright—and combines a background in communication and photography with a playful enthusiasm for board games, which she uses to spark creative problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Fellowship, Software Engineering, Software Engineering Fellowship, Software Engineering at Hackbright Academy
Bachelor of Arts, Communication, Computer Science, Photography, Bachelor of Arts, Communication, Computer Science, Photography at Wesleyan College
Romanian Baccalaureate, Mathematics and Computer Science, Romanian Baccalaureate, Mathematics and Computer Science at George Cosbuc Bilingual High School