Nina Schiff
Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorNina Schiff is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience, now based in San Francisco. She contributed to Facebook's Open Switching System (fboss) as a backend developer, implementing QoS and QSFP transceiver configuration, port-speed aware features, and a QsfpService API to surface transceiver information, while refactoring port management for greater reliability. She held Principal Software Engineer at Stripe (2020–2022), shaping large-scale, production-grade systems, and previously built cloud and networking software at Meta (2014–2019) and AWS (2011–2014). Originally from sunny Cape Town, she brings a global perspective to her teams. Nina specializes in backend and systems work, translating complex networking requirements into maintainable, scalable software across distributed services. She’s known for delivering robust infrastructure and practical solutions that scale with growing organizations.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
c-programming-language10
thrift9
network-configuration9
qos8
automated-tests7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/fboss
Jul 2016 - May 2018
Facebook Open Switching System
Software for controlling network switches.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:103 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Nina primarily contributed to the fboss project by adding and modifying features related to Quality of Service (QoS) and QSFP (Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable) transceiver configuration. They added functionality to customize transceiver settings based on port speed, including setting and clearing CDR (Clock and Data Recovery) bits, and rate selection. They also implemented support for a QsfpService with an API that exposes current transceiver information. The user worked to refactor code to enhance port management.
facebookcontrollingswitchingsystem-softwareswitches
ninas/polar-hr
Nov 2022 - Dec 2023
Contributions:61 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
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