Allison Northrop
Engineering Manager at Paytient
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllison Northrop is a seasoned engineering leader and full-stack developer based in Austin with 8 years of experience building high-impact products for startups and large-scale teams. Currently an Engineering Manager at Paytient, she focuses on inspiring engineers, delivering customer-loved software, and scaling engineering practices. Her background spans leadership and hands-on engineering—from overhauling Blue Origin's backend tool with 5-whys analysis, monitoring, and TDD to shipping Rover’s first large-scale React project that cut customer-service inquiries by 30%. She has led technical teams at Carrot Fertility as Tech Lead and Engineering Manager, and has driven operational improvements and trust/safety initiatives as an early-career engineer. Allison began as an intern at Rover and expanded through Ada Developers Academy and a cross-disciplinary education in journalism and political science, illustrating strong communication and problem-solving versatility. She combines growth-minded leadership with pragmatic software craftsmanship to turn complex requirements into reliable systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Government, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Government at Seattle Pacific UniversityComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Ada Developers AcademyMead High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
calculator5
menu4
data-structures4
recursion4
data-structure4
solar-system4
javascript3
solar3
react2
css2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Allison-Northrop/tennis-match
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:82 pushes, 10 branches in 19 days
sahanamurthy/betsy
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 61 pushes, 4 branches in 8 days
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