Alanna Irving
Co-Founder at The Gift Trust
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAlanna Irving is a mission-driven founder and executive with 11 years of experience building mission-oriented tech and nonprofit infrastructure that makes philanthropy and community funding more accessible. As co-founder of multiple ventures including Fundsorter, Gift Collective and Open Collective NZ, she blends hands-on product and front-end/back-end contributions with strategic leadership, operations, and governance. She has led large-scale public-sector change as Practice Lead for Outcomes at New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs and scaled fiscal sponsorship models globally as Executive Director of the Open Collective Foundation. A prolific collaborator in the open-source and impact ecosystems, her GitHub work spans UI improvements in Open Collective’s Next.js frontend and thoughtful refactors to its GraphQL API email flows. Based in Wellington and an Edmund Hillary Fellow, she combines systems thinking with a deep commitment to equitable, community-centred funding—often translating complex funding rules into simple user experiences. An unexpected strength: she repeatedly bridges technical detail and high-trust governance, turning policy and product complexity into practical, people-centred tools.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Asian and Middle Eastern Language and Civilizations, BA, Asian and Middle Eastern Language and Civilizations at Northwestern University
English, Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
handlebars10
nextjs10
html-template10
python-templates10
col10
code-templates10
apptemplates10
email-templates10
nodejs10
cpp-templates10
react10
wpgraphql9
wordpress-graphql9
html9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
opencollective/opencollective-frontend
Jan 2019 - Oct 2022
Open Collective's Frontend. A React app powered by Next.js.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 63 commits, 32 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alanna primarily contributed to the front-end of the Open Collective frontend application. Their work focused on modifying UI elements, specifically within the expense and gift card sections, and the pricing and fiscal host pages. The commits include updates to HTML, JavaScript, and potentially CSS files, reflecting involvement in both the structure and presentation of the user interface. The changes appear to improve the user experience and update messaging.
next-jsreactfrontendopencollectivewebpack
opencollective/opencollective-api
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Open Collective's API. A GraphQL API powered by Sequelize and PostgreSQL.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 19 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Alanna primarily focused on updating email templates for the Open Collective API, modifying content and fixing formatting issues. Their contributions involved refactoring email notifications for various events, including expense approvals, thank you messages, and onboarding processes for both standard and Open Collective Foundation users. Additionally, the user addressed code and text issues, such as adjusting links and fixing language inconsistencies across different email templates.
apigraphql-apisequelizeapi-snodejs
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