Elizabeth Giesbrecht

Fullstack engineer with early stage startup background. Experienced in serverless backend systems, cloud architecture, app engine API development, and web dev with React + Node.js.

Full Stack Software Engineer (Contract)

Inkly AI, March 2023 - Present

• Led the development, production, and deployment of an internal OpenAi powered platform that ingests podcast and interview transcripts to produce condensed SEO optimized articles.
• Designed and implemented a serverless communication infrastructure using Firebase Realtime Database, Google Cloud Functions, and Google App Engine for real-time data exchange.
• Configured and deployed secure API endpoints using Google App Engine and Python
• Developed the user interface of the platform using JavaScript and React, while ensuring efficient deployment through Vercel.
• Leveraged OpenAI and AI tooling extensively throughout project lifecycle, using the API to power content synthesis and external tools to optimize workflow
• Independently adapted to several technical tools throughout CI/CD cycle and carefully evaluated utility in streamlining the delivery pipeline 
• Developed an experimental idea into a revenue generating internal platform

Digital Design and Development Diploma

North Island College, September 2022 - April 2023

• Studied web and app development technologies 
• Developed UI/UX skills using InDesign, Figma, and Adobe XD
• Studied development life cycle of mobile applications

B. Software Engineering

University of Victoria, September 2019 - April 2022

•  Applied engineering design and execution principles to team projects. Methodologies include Agile development, scrum, and CI/CD 
• Used C and Java to practice foundational software engineering concepts, including:
  • Algorithms and Data Structures
  • Object oriented programming
  • Best practices in writing code