Marie Chatfield Rivas
About Marie Chatfield Rivas
Marie Chatfield Rivas is a Staff Engineer currently working at data.world, recognized for her contributions to customer advocacy and engineering practices. She has a diverse background in software engineering, having held positions at companies such as Square and Pingboard, and has developed educational resources on various technical topics.
Work at data.world
Marie Chatfield Rivas currently serves as a Staff Engineer at data.world since 2022. In this role, she has developed and maintained full-stack features utilizing technologies such as React, Node.js, Java, and ElasticSearch. Her work includes adding support for custom search grammar through Lucene parsers. Prior to her current position, she worked as a Senior Engineer at data.world from 2020 to 2022, contributing to various engineering projects.
Education and Expertise
Marie Chatfield Rivas earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Computer Science from Rice University, where she studied from 2011 to 2015. During her academic tenure, she served as both an Undergraduate Researcher and a Research Assistant in the Computer Science Department, gaining valuable experience in research and development.
Professional Background
Marie has held several engineering positions throughout her career. She worked at Square as a Software Engineer from 2015 to 2018, and at Pingboard as a Senior Software Engineer from 2020 to 2021. Her earlier role at Pingboard included working as a Front-End Software Engineer from 2018 to 2020. Additionally, she completed a Software Engineering Internship at HomeAway.com in 2014.
Achievements
In Q4 2021, Marie received an inaugural award nominated by members of the Customer Success team for her advocacy for customers. She also won a peer-nominated and executive-selected Culture Award in the same quarter for her impact across the company. Marie has developed educational resources on web accessibility, React Hooks best practices, CSS fundamentals, and service architecture, showcasing her commitment to knowledge sharing.
Contributions to Team Processes
Throughout her career, Marie has identified process needs within teams and built consensus around practices to enhance efficiency. She has focused on reducing on-call burdens and improving developer documentation, asynchronous communication, and onboarding processes. Additionally, she established a product release process that aimed to minimize user frustration through various educational resources and analytics dashboards.