Alexa Gillman
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexa Gillman is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building developer tools and AI-assisted coding products, currently working on the Copilot Coding Agent at GitHub in New York. Her background includes deep involvement in Codespaces and Copilot Chat/Spark features across Microsoft and GitHub, giving her a strong grasp of cloud dev environments and developer experience. She has progressed from internships on Visual Studio and Live Share to senior roles shipping large-scale, productivity-focused features for developers. Known for bridging IDE UX and backend systems, she brings pragmatic engineering with a knack for making complex tooling feel seamless for users.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (24)
chat10
slack10
apache9
react-native9
electron9
javascript9
java9
python9
shopizer9
zulip9
collaboration9
springframework9
retail9
ecommerce8
closed5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alexagillman/finalproject2016
Nov 2016 - Jul 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 43 branches in 9 years 9 months
alexagillman/zulip
Apr 2020 - Jun 2023
Zulip server - powerful open source team chat
Contributions:8 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 3 months
team-chatchatzulip
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