Vanessa Esterbrook
Software Engineer at Farmer's Fridge
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolVanessa Esterbrook is a Software Engineer II in Chicago with eight years of experience building reliable backend systems, internal platforms, and automation for production environments. At Farmer’s Fridge she designs and maintains Python-based AWS serverless services—Lambda, DynamoDB, and AppSync—to support pricing, device configuration, and monitoring for a fleet of 1,800+ IoT-connected fridges. Her work emphasizes observability, pragmatic tooling (including CSV-driven tools for non-engineering teams), and reducing manual processes across engineering and operations. Promoted from AppOps, she combines deep production support experience with backend development, owning monitoring, runbooks, and incident follow-up. A former bartender and corporate trainer, she brings calm communication and a talent for translating technical detail into operationally useful workflows. She seeks roles that blend backend development with developer tooling and workflow improvements to help teams move faster.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Python, C#, MEAN, Python, C#, MEAN at Coding Dojo
Github Skills (8)
json-api4
api4
json4
react4
ruby-on-rails4
rails3
rest-api3
ruby3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vesterbrook/forum
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
ruby on rails forum
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
ruby-on-railsdiscourserailsrails-engineforum
vesterbrook/MEAN
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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