Zena Hirsch
Sr. Software Engineer at Vimeo
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZena Hirsch is a senior full-stack software engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in backend systems, database optimization, and API design, currently shaping core content management features on Vimeo’s Library team. She has a deep history at Vimeo across engineering and technical support, uniquely blending customer-facing operational insight with hands-on refactors that improve performance and maintainability. Zena excels at translating product requirements into robust, scalable solutions and has repeatedly modernized internal tooling for international support teams. Her background in video production and encoding gives her practical domain expertise in media workflows that informs better engineering decisions. Based in Grand Rapids, she brings a pragmatic, product-minded approach to complex systems and a track record of shipping high-quality code under real-world constraints.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Communication Arts, B.A. Communication Arts at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
233reputation
30kreached
1answer
8questions
Github Skills (107)
vimeo-api10
zendesk-api10
vimeo9
popup9
boilerplate9
java9
wrapper9
django8
api8
facilities8
static-analysis8
elasticsearch8
cookiecutter8
heroku8
api-client8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vimeo/zendesk-ticket-history
Jan 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:83 commits, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 3 years 3 months
zenahirsch/personal-website
Apr 2020 - Jun 2023
Zena Hirsch's personal website
Contributions:2 PRs, 135 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
reactnextjs
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