Melanie Riise
Lead Software Engineer at Jinxxy
Everett, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelanie Riise is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building reliable systems across front-end and back-end roles, currently based in Everett, Washington. She has contributed to notable open-source infrastructure work, including testing and hardening the Filecoin Virtual Machine's core modules (IpldOps and GasOps) at Protocol Labs, improving reliability through targeted unit tests and debugging artifacts. Her career spans startups and product teams—co-founding Dekanova, developing frontend features at Vector Labs, and now engineering at Jinxxy—demonstrating both entrepreneurial initiative and practical delivery. Melanie pairs pragmatic QA-focused engineering with developer-facing implementation skills, often surfacing edge-case scenarios that strengthen production resilience. Transitioning between roles from assembly operations to software engineering highlights a hands-on, adaptable approach to problem solving. She brings a balance of systems thinking, test-driven rigor, and a track record of shipping robust, debuggable code.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
STEM, STEM at Cedar Park Christian - Mountlake Terrace CampusUniversity of Washington Bothell
Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
filecoin10
webassembly10
rust10
testing10
error-handling9
debugging8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
filecoin-project/ref-fvm
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Reference implementation of the Filecoin Virtual Machine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / QA Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:126 reviews, 66 commits, 37 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Melanie primarily contributed to the testing and development of the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) reference implementation. Their work focused on implementing and refining unit tests for the `IpldOps` and `GasOps` modules, including creating test cases for various scenarios, such as roundtrips, unexpected values, and gas usage. Additionally, the user added error assertions and debug artifacts to improve testing coverage and debugging capabilities. These contributions enhanced the testing and reliability of core FVM functionalities.
filecoinvirtual-machinerustwebassembly
Dekanova/redshift
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 10 reviews, 42 commits in 11 months
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