Summary
Violet Graves is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, high-performance Ruby applications, currently contributing to Splitwise after senior engineering roles at ezCater. She focuses on code quality and throughput, balancing pragmatic engineering with performance tuning to ship consistently high output. Her background spans fast-moving startups and scale-conscious product teams, giving her strong instincts for maintainable systems and incremental improvement. Trained in linguistics and philosophy at MIT and UConn, she brings an analytical, language-aware approach to problem solving and communication. Known for a succinct personal style (her GitHub bio: "meowdy"), she pairs technical rigor with a bit of personality behind the code.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Linguistics/Philosophy, Linguistics/Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelors, Linguistics and Philosophy, Bachelors, Linguistics and Philosophy at University of Connecticut