By Day
Hey there! I'm Liz. I'm a Senior Software Engineer at HubSpot working on the Canvas design system, a React-based design system used by hundreds of engineers, designers, content producers, and more. I aim for performance and reliability in any code I ship, and bring these best practices to the forefront in any code-related articles in this blog.
I enjoy teaching coding and live for giving others that Eureka moment through tangible, real-world examples. Through my teaching career, I've been involved with wonderful educational organizations like General Assembly, Women Who Code, and Girl Develop It, among others, as an instructor or leader. I founded the Boston chapter of Tech Ladies.
By Night
I have always loved making things. I have a tendency to look at the things around me and think "I could make that." As you can imagine, that can balloon into a lot of different things. This blog aims to catalog all my various construction pursuits.
On a personal level, I absolutely love coding. Even though, yes, it's my day job, I often spend the weekends hacking around with some technology or another I haven't fiddled around with yet. I got my first taste of code when I was a preteen building online games and deploying them over FTP on a dial-up connection (😱 the horror).
Some other things I enjoy include:
- Strategy board games, notably Nemesis, Scythe, or chess
- Halloween and spooky costumes
- Exercising — weightlifting and strength training being my favorite 💪
- Traveling the world. Atlas Obscura is my go-to site for tourist recommendations — it's a treasure trove of lesser-known attractions with quirky backstories.
- Bullet journaling and drawing, typically with a black Micron 01
- Personal finance, financial forecasting, and reading books about personal finance
- Thrifting and upcycling
- Museums
- The 1979 film Alien
- The intersection of art and code (see fun AR t-shirt below)
Nice to e-meet you!