Andrea Griffin

S

Senior Software Engineer at DoorDash · TypeScript, VS Code extensions

DoorDash
Minneapolis, MN · CT (UTC-6)
5+ years experience
University of Washington
English
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Currently at DoorDash, where I work on developer tools. Moved 73% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on TypeScript
Please don't message about
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Courses and coaching offers
  • SEO and link-building offers

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
VS Code extensionsRustcompilersTypeScriptLSPCLI design

Experience

  1. Senior Software Engineer
    Apr 2023 - Present
    DoorDash · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Grew the developer experience team from 3 to 36 engineers.
  2. Software Engineer
    Feb 2022 - Apr 2023
    Citi · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Moved 79% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Wrote the VS Code extensions service that now handles 44 million requests a day.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from developer experience
2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling developer tools.

Developer tools benchmark
2023

Reproducible benchmarks comparing LSP and CLI design on real workloads.

References

No references yet.

Education

  1. University of Washington
    BS, Mathematics
    2016 - 2020

Details

Compensation expectations
What they are targeting for their next role.
Visible to connections
Direct contact details
Direct email and a scheduling link.
Visible to connections

Trusted Partners

Sponsored