Hi, I'm Amanda.
Software Engineer. Product focused. Team builder.
I combine technical depth with product strategy to turn complicated systems into things people can actually use. And I leave teams stronger than I found them.
About
I have spent my career building software and the teams behind it. I'm often referred to as the glue, especially between product and engineering, because I'm willing to do the unglamorous work of turning messy, ambiguous problems into systems people can actually use.
Along the way I've learned that "can we build it?" is the easy question. The better one is "should we?" And you only get that answer by understanding what solving the problem is worth to both the user and the business.
- Strongest atDiscovery, scoping, prototypes, cross-team translation
- CurrentlyOpen to product and software engineer roles
- NextHelping others grow their own careers
Projects
Craftloop
A tool for storing crochet pattern notes that can be exported as PDFs for popular marketplaces (e.g. Etsy, Ravelry) or markdown files for blog posts.
A site built to host a creative writing series of prose. Uses a simple Python script to generate a markdown file containing the frontmatter template. Uses gray-matter/marked to render markdown files as HTML.
A game to test your memory. Find all the matching tiles to move onto the next level.