Alena Holligan
Senior Software Engineer at aah design concepts
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAlena Holligan is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer and founder with 11 years of professional experience and two decades of PHP expertise, now based in Portland, Oregon. She blends full-stack engineering, data engineering, and instructional design—maintaining AWS data warehouses, building ETL pipelines and Metabase dashboards, and shipping microservices and front-end features in Python, Node, Vue and PHP. A natural communicator and leader, she has delivered keynote talks, run workshops, led the Portland PHP user group and organized developer training through devParent and aah design concepts. Her work bridges product, data, and developer education, helping teams turn complex data into actionable, user-facing experiences. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic architecture, hands-on mentoring, and a knack for translating business needs into clean, testable systems.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
AAS Multimedia, AAS Multimedia at Art Institute of Phoenix
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Github Skills (41)
visualization9
pixel9
slack9
data-visualization8
database8
clojure8
pixel-art8
analytics8
dashboard8
mysql8
postgresql8
cybersource7
oop7
open-source7
metabase7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sketchings/beginning-php-training
Mar 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
sketchings/fast-playground
May 2021 - Mar 2022
Playground for working with github actions and FastAPI
Contributions:2 releases, 9 PRs, 83 pushes in 10 months
pythonplaygroundfastapi
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