# Tess Lipsky

> Forward Deployed Engineering @ Baseten | prev Software Engineering @ Microsoft (Azure Networking)

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tesslipsky

## Work Experience
### Forward Deployed Engineer @ Baseten
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Software Defined and Accelerated Networking

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Redmond, Washington, United States
Azure Host Networking- Accelerated Networking. Network Virtualization, Network Offloads, High Speed Networking, Software Defined Networking.

### Rewriting the Code Fellow @ Rewriting the Code
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024
Selected as a fellow with Rewriting the Code, a national program for women interested in tech careers.
Mentor incoming undergraduate women interested in STEM through RTC's Highschool Bridge Program.

### Duke Technology Scholar @ Duke University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Teachers Assistant for Writing 101 @ Duke University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

### Software Engineer Intern @ Big Fish Games
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote
Software Engineering intern on the Cloud Enablement Team

### Data Structures and Algorithms Teaching Assistant (TA) | Duke University @ Duke University Pratt School of Engineering
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Durham, North Carolina, United States
Lead a weekly 75-minute recitation section in Data Structures and Algorithms (CS201).              
Held office hours to help students brainstorm solutions and debug code.

### Winner Of Best Undergraduate Research Project @ Duke University Pratt School of Engineering
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Disability In The Disciplines Conference
Member of freshman engineering team designing inhaler attachment device for asthma patients with limited hand functionality and small children. Works with the Duke University ALS Clinic and First Year Design Program to test and refine the device. Team selected as best undergraduate research projection for 2018-2019 in the Disability in the Disciplines conference at Duke University and won prize money to continue working on the device.

### Teacher's Assistant (TA) for Engineering 101 @ Duke University Pratt School of Engineering
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Paid TA position for the First-Year Design Program (FYD) at Pratt School of Engineering. Works with students during the class and lab times of Engineering Communication and Design learning the entire engineering design process.

### Integrated Design Challenge-Fundamentals of Electrical and Computer Engineering @ Duke University Pratt School of Engineering
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Member of winning team in an extensive design challenge that requires teams to integrate knowledge across topics to build and design boe-bot robots to overcome challenging obstacles using sensor data acquisition and processing.

### Credit Suisse Sophomore Summer Analyst Program- Sales & Trading and Equity Research @ Credit Suisse
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Structured program to introduce rising juniors to the Global Financial Markets businesses.

### Volunteer @ ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area

### President of Community Service @ The Chapin School
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area

### Peer Advisor @ The Chapin School
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area

### Team Captain of Varsity Volleyball Team @ The Chapin School
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017

### Paid Research Internship @ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
Earned a grant from the National Science Foundation to work in a mechanobiology lab for 10 weeks and research talin in a 3-dimensional model and its function in the immunological synapse of a T-cell in Dr. Morgan Huse's lab.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Duke University

### High School Diploma
The Chapin School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tess-lipsky

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Last updated: 2026-04-13