Abigail Hersh
Technical Lead at Sustainable Coffee Buyer's Guide
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbigail Hersh is a technical lead with nine years of experience building user-focused web platforms and data-driven tools, currently leading development of a coffee pricing lookup and analytics platform to support living wages for producers. She blends front-end expertise in React, Redux, Typescript and D3 with backend experience in Go and Python, having shipped full-stack features at Cockroach Labs and led delivery on acquisition-stage products at illumis. Abigail has a track record of improving developer velocity through thoughtful refactors, shaping APIs with backend teams, and owning features end-to-end from design collaboration to on-call support. Her background in cognitive science and early research work informs a pragmatic, user-centered approach to data visualization and UX, exemplified by an interactive map-based budget estimator she built for roasters. Based in New York, she also brings experience mentoring engineers and running diversity and inclusion initiatives from her time teaching and leading at App Academy.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Cognitive Science, Bachelors Cognitive Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Spanish, Filipino
Github Skills (46)
kubernetes10
postgresql10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
distributed-systems10
go10
sql10
cloud-native10
distributed-database10
sql-database10
database10
pydictionary9
charts9
helm9
matching8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
absterr08/absterr08.github.io
Oct 2018 - Sep 2024
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
absterr08/slap
Dec 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:129 pushes, 16 branches, 2 issues in 2 years 2 months
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