Caroline Lawrence

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Director of Engineering, eBay - rate limiting · Redis · OpenAPI

eBay
Dallas, TX · CT (UTC-6)
10+ years experience
Georgia Tech
English
AdvisingOpen to work
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Director of Engineering at eBay, focused on API platforms. Brought on-call pages for public API down from 34 a week to 2. Grew the public API team from 5 to 14 engineers. I volunteer with a food bank on weekends.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on API platforms
  • Roles in API platforms
  • Second opinions on REST decisions
  • Working sessions on TypeScript
Please don't message about
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Offshore staffing offers

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
rate limitingTypeScriptRedisRESTOpenAPI
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for career switchers into engineering: API platforms and TypeScript

Topics
API platforms, REST, OpenAPI
Format
Office hours
Terms
Paid
Capacity
A few async reviews a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

21 years of API platforms. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

Dallas, TX · remote OKredisrate limitingopenapi
Open
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Backend Engineer in media, Dallas or hybrid

Target roles
Backend Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Logistics, Healthtech
Work mode
Hybrid
Available
60 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the TX
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (Series B) where API platforms is core to the product.
Not interested in
Contract-only roles

21 years in API platforms. Strongest at REST and OpenAPI. Available immediately.

Dallas, TXresttypescriptrate limiting
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Mar 2026 - Present
    eBay · 7 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Led the migration of 24 services to REST.
    • Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Jun 2024 - Mar 2026
    Deloitte · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Backed 32 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  3. Senior Backend Engineer
    Sep 2021 - Jun 2024
    Intuit · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Built the experimentation framework 10 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Wrote the OpenAPI service that now handles 6 million requests a day.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Jan 2020 - Sep 2021
    Expedia Group · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 424ms to 84ms.
  5. Senior Backend Engineer
    Nov 2016 - Jan 2020
    Visa · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Shipped 9 launches on the public API team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. Georgia Tech
    BS, Electronics and Communication
    2000 - 2004

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