Alexis Barnes
Senior Software Engineer at The Washington Post
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexis Barnes is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack systems and live-event data tools at The Washington Post, where she has led engineering teams, overhauled front-end stacks, and delivered AWS-backed pipelines for major events like the Olympics and March Madness. Currently pursuing a master’s in Human-Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech, she blends UX-focused thinking with pragmatic engineering to create reusable component libraries and newsroom-facing tooling. Her background in media production and emerging technologies gives her a rare fluency in both storytelling and data infrastructure, enabling close collaboration with editorial stakeholders. Outside of work she’s an avid runner who’s rarely seen without her three dogs, a detail that reflects her steady endurance and team-first mindset.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (15)
visible9
finance8
dashboard6
stitches6
react5
uikit4
radix2
ui-components2
candidate2
headers2
javascript2
elections2
wordpress2
csv1
radix-ui1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
uncetlab/gearupvr
Sep 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
alexisbarnes/audiobook
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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