Trisha Quan
Founding Engineer at New Harbor
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTrisha Quan is a founding engineer and seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience building backend, developer tools, and infrastructure across social media, political tech, and health tech. She has driven critical systems at Twitter and Pinterest, led engineering efforts for national political campaigns and the DNC, and scaled data and backend platforms at Flatiron Health and Maven Clinic. Comfortable toggling between IC work and people management, she’s equally at home shipping Airflow/metrics pipelines as mentoring teams and hiring for core backend roles. After a 2023 sabbatical she’s taken short advisor and interim CTO roles, and now is back founding at New Harbor while exploring product-market fit opportunities. Known for pragmatic leadership and a bias toward measurable reliability, she brings a rare mix of large-platform experience and hands-on problem solving across Python, Java, and modern infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversitySummer 1 Cohort, Summer 1 Cohort at Recurse Center
Github Skills (18)
redis10
mysql10
http10
finagle10
distributed-systems10
java10
zipkin10
scala10
rpc10
event-loop10
fault-tolerant10
memcached10
fault10
thrift10
utility9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
stuhood/uncommons
Oct 2012 - Feb 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 1 year 4 months
twitter/finagle
Oct 2012 - Feb 2014
A fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system
Contributions:6 commits in 1 year 4 months
fault-tolerantrpcredismysqlfinagle
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