# Emilia Brizuela-Nothaft

> Software Engineer

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/emilia

Software Engineer experienced in Javascript, React, Typescript, Elixir, Phoenix, SQL. Passionate about architecting and deploying scalable web applications through AWS and improving the developer experience through structured GraphQL querying. Contributor to the open source developer community, working towards closing the gender gap in technology.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ sweetgreen
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Los Angeles, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Boulevard
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Fullstack engineer on the Feature Development team, leading the charge on new product features for Boulevard’s largest application (Dashboard) in Angular, React, Typescript, GraphQL, and Elixir, in addition to features for secondary applications
- Navigate Angular to React migration, deciphering appropriate cases in which to improve existing Angular code or create new React components within the Angular framework based on feature size and future scalability
- Develop new, market-driven features in React and TypeScript utilizing a customized Angular to React migration bridge and Boulevard’s Blvd-UI custom component library, alongside various tooling for increased efficiency
- Collaborate on teams of 3 to 16, following AGILE methodologies and working closely with product and design teams, to complete both large features and essential product enhancements within committed time frame
- Capitalize on Apollo GraphQL’s precision to reveal specific fields and database information from the backend, develop and expand schemas and unique resolvers, and query only for explicitly necessary fields in the frontend
- Calculate complex and detailed order and commerce values on the backend, taking advantage of Elixir’s immutability of data and clear error handling to ensure stable values through diverse use cases
- Built rebranded company website using React and NextJS, synced with Contentful, Salesforce, and Postmark

### Software Engineer @ CS Labs
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Engineered React/Redux and Node/Express single page application deployed with Docker/AWS to organize event-based transactions, enhancing backend integrations in concert with services such as mailchimp, copper, and Google Analytics
- Integrated Node.js server with Google Analytics API by pushing real-time user interactions as Google Analytics events throughout the application in order to facilitate analysis of user trends and interaction with CTAs
- Developed React components and render logic, integrating React Router to provide a more intuitive and functional experience for users by creating breadcrumbs to follow page history and additional logic to dynamically display new components
- Refactored Node.js / Copper CMS integration by removing unnecessary code through testing, and adding comprehensive detail to integration type with new tagging structure, providing analytical insights into program applications
- Mentored developers in React, Redux, Node, and SQL/NoSQL best practices with technical support via one-on-one code review

### Software Engineer @ Open Source
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Los Angeles, California, United States
Mira
- Designed traversal algorithm to parse through AWS SDK in order to analyze relationships between AWS instances, allowing users to easily reconfigure instance connection through direct editing of security group information
- Created​ ​React-based application incorporated with Redux​ ​for centralized state management library, streamlining the addition of subsequent components and optimizing development experience via time travel debugging
- Configured Electron with NodeJS using ipcRenderer and ipcMain Event Emitters to orchestrate communication between Electron instances and to save users’ AWS credentials via individual file systems for increased security and ease of use
- Leveraged GraphQL’s declarative data fetching to create structured queries, decreasing total payload size and reducing costly round trips to the server to improve application efficiency and performance for users
- Constructed Jest and Enzyme testing suite for React components to ensure robust functionality and sustainability of application
- Implemented SCSS partial files and variables to improve style sheet readability and code base maintainability

### Software Engineer @ Open Source
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area
SocialKeep
- Architected RESTful API endpoints through Node.js/Express with customized controller middleware for effective routing between client-side HTTP requests and SQL database
- Modeled SQL database for its ability to maintain data integrity, ensuring consistency of user information
- Developed Jest and Supertest integration testing suite to guarantee server-side API functionality, laying the foundation for straightforward and comprehensive test-driven development to improve code quality

### Software Engineer @ Open Source
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area
TXOKOS
- Customized reusable React components to improve developer experience and code maintainability
Integrated React-Router to minimize server calls while maintaining responsiveness of single page application 
- Engineered SQL database, ensuring atomicity of each transaction and privacy of information for each user
- Leveraged Google’s OAuth with PassportJS to lower bounce rate and redirect authentication to resource server

### Software Engineer @ Open Source
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area
Tree to Table
- Designed NoSQL schema to store user-submitted data in database for efficiency of lookup and rapid prototyping
- Adopted Proptypes for type checking of props in React component to facilitate debugging process
- Employed CSS Grid with CSS3 to improve responsiveness of application to deliver a streamlined user experience

### Science and Engineering Director @ STAR Education
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Queried SQL-based logistics database to have clear and direct connections between various users, services, and coordinate schedules and programming in order to uphold data concurrence across 1000+ employees and services
- Generated UX / UI for mobile app, tracking acquisition and movement of surplus supply donations enabling use of products that would have otherwise been wasted, while also tracking quantities so organizations could benefit from charitable deductions

### Social Media Manager @ The Children's Nature Institute
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Los Angeles


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Environmental Ethics and Policy, Spanish
University of Portland
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/emilia-brizuela-nothaft

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Last updated: 2026-03-29