Maya Lindqvist
Software Engineer · Go, TypeScript, Python
[email protected] · +1 (555) 0100 · Oakland, CA · linkedin.com/in/mayalindqvist
Summary
Cut p99 checkout latency from 2.4s to 690ms by batching a synchronous fan-out into an outbox consumer, holding the gain through a 3× traffic increase.
Experience
Software Engineer, Northwind Payments · Oakland, CAMar 2022 – Present
•Rebuilt the double-entry ledger on an append-only event store, lifting sustained throughput from 400 to 9,200 writes per second with exact balance reconciliation.
•Led the shard migration of 42M accounts off a single Postgres primary across six weeks with zero customer-visible downtime and no rollback.
•Cut p99 API latency 71% (2.4s to 690ms) by replacing synchronous fan-out with a batched outbox consumer.
Software Developer, Cartogram · San Francisco, CAJun 2018 – Feb 2022
•Reduced infrastructure spend 34%, or $780K annualised, by moving cold objects to tiered storage behind a signed-URL cache.
•Designed the multi-tenant isolation model that unblocked $3.1M of enterprise ARR held up in security review.
•Mentored four engineers through the promotion process; two reached senior within eighteen months.
Skills
Core: Go, TypeScript, Python, SQL, Kubernetes, Kafka
Also: Postgres, Terraform, AWS, gRPC, Distributed systems, Event sourcing, CI/CD
Working style: Technical writing, Incident command, Mentoring, Cross-team design review
Education
B.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley · Berkeley, CAAug 2013 – May 2017
Grade: 3.8/4.0
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