Lindsey is a results-driven software engineering manager with a passion for building inclusive, high-performing teams and fostering positive, collaborative cultures. She combines creative vision with strong analytical skills to deliver innovative solutions and empower teams to achieve ambitious goals. Lindsey is dedicated to mentoring talent, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring both business and team success.
2024-01-01 —
Highlights
- Led a team of 7 to deliver flagship GitHub Copilot features for GitHub Universe, including Issue Summarization, Pull Request integration, and more.
- Orchestrated the transition Copilot for PRs through a new organizational structure, ensuring continued team effectiveness and morale.
- Built and managed a new team of 10 engineers across NA and APAC regions for GitHub Models, a distinct product separate from Copilot.
- Successfully led the first public preview launch of GitHub Models at GitHub Universe 2024 and then later public preview of Models now integrated into repositories for Microsoft Build 2025.
2022-09-01 — 2024-01-01
Highlights
- Continued on as the anchor for the discussions team, acting as lead and point of contact for external teams and assuring work was moving forward
- Created the standard for how hackathons were run and operated at GitHub based on the success for running hackathons at our organizational level
- Developed a pilot program for engineering rotations in order to prevent burnout and increase team morale which quickly became an organizational standard
- Worked with the GitHub Sponsors team to ship the GitHub Sposonsors Patreon integatrion which allowed creators an additional route within GitHub Sponsors to receive funding
2021-04-20 — 2022-09-01
GitHub focuses on tools to build software and connect people in the world of open source
Highlights
- Operated as the manager for the discussions team for 6 months
- Drove splitting the oversized routes file into separate files and to make the codebase more maintainable
- Anchored the team for a year acting as lead and point of contact for external teams and assuring work was moving forward
- Assited in moving GitHub's community to the GitHub Discussions platform
2020-03-09 — 2021-04-02
Stitch Fix focuses on providing a personal style service to a variety of customers
Highlights
- Worked on a collaboration shopping experience with an influencer
- Worked on a dynamic shopping experience for clients
- Expanded the direct purchase platform
2016-12-05 — 2020-02-14
GitHub focuses on tools to build software and connect people in the world of open source
Highlights
- Worked with the Community & Safety team to close abuse vectors in our existing codebase to make our users safer
- Added edit history to PRs, Issues, and comments so users could see what changed, when, and by whom
- Worked with other teams to determine what abuse vectors would be in their new features and how to best close them
2013-07-01 — 2016-11-01
Articulate focuses on the world of e-learning with a variety of products to help support e-learning environments
Highlights
- Built and launched the largest community website for e-learning professionals
- Designed and integrated single sign on for all Articulate products
2012-06-01 — 2013-04-01
Branding Brand is a company that focuses on facilitating mobile e-commerce for it's business partners
Highlights
- Built a third party shopping API so purchases could easily happen through partner websites
- Developed tools to assist in "transcoding" partner websites for mobile consumption
2010-01-01 — 2010-08-01
Deeplocal is a technology company that builds innovative tech for advertising
Highlights
- Wrote a script to automatically update public transit data
- Completed and tweaked an iPhone game for self parking cars
- Released a motherhood community website
2009-06-01 — 2009-08-01
TLI is a group that focuses on bringing computer science education to students that do not have access to programming classes in school
Highlights
- Wrote lesson plans for JavaScript, Robotics, and Computational Thinking classes
- Co-taught classes for 13-15 year old students
Girl Develop It 2012-01-01 — 2013-01-01
A non-profit organization to help provide affordable tech instruction to women
Highlights
- Started the Pittsburgh branch of GDI
- Wrote additional course materials
- Organized events and taught classes
University of Pittsburgh 2005-08-01 — 2008-12-01
University of Pittsburgh 2009-08-01 — 2012-04-01
Artful Games 2016-03-01
Examining a different way to think about video games from the perspective of my own projects
206: With Rachel White and Lindsey Bieda 2016-03-07
If you've ever wondered about how to get into game development, this episode will get you excited about trying to code your first game.
Web Development
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Ruby on Rails
- GraphQL
- React
Programming
- Lua
- Python
- D
- C/C++
- C#
- Go
Databases
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Redis
Available upon request
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