Alena Dagneau
Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder at Digit
Canada
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Top SchoolAlena Dagneau is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 11 years of hands-on experience building performant, accessible front-end systems using React, GraphQL, Relay and modern JavaScript. As CTO of Digit and a longtime senior engineering consultant, she blends strategic technical roadmapping with frequent code contributions—spending substantial time in the codebase while advising architecture on Heroku, AWS S3 and Node. She has led and scaled remote engineering teams at Make School and Revel Gatherings, hiring, mentoring, and formalizing performance processes and rubrics. Her background spans UX-focused product work, data visualizations and real‑time features from her Brandwatch days, plus a practical emphasis on TDD/BDD and web accessibility. Comfortable mentoring across time zones and bootstrapping client projects, she brings a mix of startup grit, teaching experience, and a track record of shipping reliable, user-centered web apps.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc IT with Business & Management Information Technology with Business and Management, MSc IT with Business & Management Information Technology with Business and Management at University of SussexA-Levels History Biology, A-Levels History Biology at Herderschule LüneburgBSc Digital Media Development Digital Media Development, BSc Digital Media Development Digital Media Development at University of Brighton
English, German, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (49)
babel-es610
react-redux9
graphql-tools8
api8
router8
single-page8
bootstrap7
react7
graphql7
react-router6
jestjs6
preset6
gmail6
discovery6
numerical-methods6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MakeSchool-Tutorials/ruby-on-rails-blog
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
casa-rara/casa-rara.github.io
Aug 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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