Summary
Alessia Gibbon is a seasoned developer advocate and educator with a decade of experience blending developer relations, software engineering, and hands-on teaching. Based in Seattle, she has led and scaled developer relations teams at Google Cloud, built Flutter advocacy at Google, and most recently served as Staff Developer Advocate at Temporal Technologies. Since 2019 she has been a Lecturer at the University of Washington while also directing Camp Fitch Computer Camp, demonstrating a long-standing commitment to mentoring learners of all ages. Her background spans product and technical program management at AWS and Amazon engineering, giving her a rare mix of advocacy, product sensibility, and implementation experience. Alessia brings deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, developer ecosystems, and curriculum design, and is known for translating complex systems into practical learning experiences. An underappreciated strength is her continuity across academic, corporate, and nonprofit education settings, enabling her to connect industry best practices to classroom impact.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Earlham College