# Maggie Lou

> Staff Software Engineer at BuildBuddy

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/maggielou

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ BuildBuddy
Jan 2022 – Present
Working on Bazel and build infrastructure, and snapshot-based Firecracker runners to reduce cold starts.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Thumbtack
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer @ Thumbtack
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
Blog post "Migrating Data-Intensive, High-Throughput APIs to Microservices": https://medium.com/thumbtack-engineering/migrating-data-intensive-high-throughput-apis-to-microservices-9624939f9cee

### Software Engineering Intern @ Braintree
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on an initiative to expand credit card processing in Australia to handle billions of transactions per year.

### Software Engineering Intern, Cloud Infrastructure Team @ Braintree
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on a team trialing adding Kubernetes to Braintree’s tech stack.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Over
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cape Town, South Africa
Created an automated online dashboard that displays key performance indicators, like revenue and retention, to promote transparency and accountability for company goals. Worked with other interns to develop the beta version of a text recommendation feature for the iOS app.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Northwestern University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/maggie-lou-4a3bb110a
- Portfolio: https://maggie-lou.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12