Alana Simpson
Engineering Manager at CircleCI
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlana Simpson is an Engineering Manager with nine years of experience guiding cross-functional teams through agile transformations and scalable delivery at companies like CircleCI and Zapproved. She blends hands-on program management and scrum mastery with a user-centered lens—her Github bio as a UX researcher hints at a curiosity for how technical communities collaborate and communicate. At CircleCI she progressed from Senior Technical Program Manager to engineer manager, demonstrating an ability to shift from program-level orchestration to direct people and technical leadership. Earlier roles at Express Scripts show she established intake systems, converted teams from Scrum to Kanban, and standardized backlog practices across multiple teams. Comfortable operating at the intersection of product, operations, and people, she brings practical process design and coaching to help teams move faster without sacrificing clarity. Based in Missouri with a finance background from the University of Missouri, she pairs analytical rigor with a talent for fostering trust and organizational change.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Missouri
Github Skills (13)
api-blueprint10
circleci10
documentation9
jekyll9
api-documentation9
redoc8
san2
python1
assembly1
machine-learning1
science1
pandas1
data-science1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Alannna/circleci-docs
Mar 2018 - Oct 2020
Documentation for CircleCI.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
circleci
Alannna/DS-SF-34
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:28 pushes in 2 months
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