Mia Carroll

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Senior Backend Engineer at Lakemont Technologies · API platforms · rate limiting, Redis

Lakemont Technologies
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
3+ years experience
MIT
English
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Overview

I work on API platforms at Lakemont Technologies in San Francisco. Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.

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Skills
rate limitingDjangoPostgreSQLRedisOpenAPIPythonREST

Experience

  1. Senior Backend Engineer
    Apr 2026 - Present
    Lakemont Technologies · 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Led the migration of 21 services to PostgreSQL.
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 762ms to 107ms.
    • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 46% in two quarters.
  2. Backend Engineer
    May 2023 - Apr 2026
    Reddit · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Shipped 28 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 694ms to 144ms.

Projects

API platforms benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing rate limiting and OpenAPI on real workloads.

Open-source OpenAPI toolkit
2022

A small library for API platforms that 596 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. MIT
    SB, Mathematics
    2017 - 2021

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