Liela Rotschy is a Software Engineer III with nine years of experience building containerized backend systems and contributing across GitHub, including work on GitHub Actions. She specializes in Ruby, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Docker, Rails, and React, and recently led core infrastructure and SDK work for Backpack, an open-source Backend-as-a-Service featuring dynamic route/model generation and a Docker-based file storage layer. A former Linguistics PhD student and long-time language teacher, she brings expertise in formal semantics and logic to API design and schema generation, favoring precise middleware and data models. Based in Monte Vista, Colorado, she combines hands-on engineering with architectural decision-making for production services.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Linguistics, Formal Semantics, Logic, Linguistics, Formal Semantics, Logic at The Ohio State University
Master's degree, Teaching English as a Second Language, GPA 4.0, Master's degree, Teaching English as a Second Language, GPA 4.0 at University of Idaho
Full-Stack Web Development, Full-Stack Web Development at Launch School
Bachelor's, Secondary Education and Teaching, 3.96, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor's, Secondary Education and Teaching, 3.96, Summa Cum Laude at Washington State University
Core Backpack API server. Built with JavaScript, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Redis, and Nginx.
Contributions:33 commits, 26 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
nginxexpressmongoosemongodbexpress-mongodb
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