Alicia Underhill
Senior Software Engineer at Headway
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlicia Underhill is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building reliable, user-focused systems across healthcare and fast-scaling startups. She’s delivered full-stack features and privacy infrastructure—cutting unnecessary patient data reads by 50%, shipping audit logging for SOC2/HIPAA compliance, and launching high-adoption features like SMS appointment reminders. Comfortable in ambiguous, early-stage environments, she has stood up teams, onboarded engineers fast, run ~100 interviews, and led knowledge-sharing programs. Her open-source contributions to the qri CLI reflect a pragmatic focus on robustness and testability, and she isn’t afraid to “power cycle” while debugging. With a commerce background and Mandarin training, she combines product-minded thinking and cross-cultural communication to move complex, regulated projects to production. Currently based in Durham, NC, she continues to blend hands-on engineering with privacy-first architecture and operational rigor.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
UVA in Shanghai Chinese Summer Language Immersion Program, UVA in Shanghai Chinese Summer Language Immersion Program at East China Normal UniversityGuanghua School of Managment International Business/Trade/Commerce, Guanghua School of Managment International Business/Trade/Commerce at Peking UniversityMandarin Training Center (國語教學中心）, Mandarin Training Center (國語教學中心） at National Taiwan Normal UniversityB.S. in Commerce Finance & Marketing with Chinese concentration, B.S. in Commerce Finance & Marketing with Chinese concentration at University of Virginia
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (9)
cli10
command-line-interface10
go10
command-line10
testing10
datasets5
data-science5
ipfs4
golang4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
qri-io/qri
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:Alicia primarily focused on improving the robustness and maintainability of the `qri` command-line tool. They addressed a bug related to the `qri` config, refactored the connect command to remove redundant checks and added tests to ensure the repo setup happens before other commands. Their work involved modifying command-line interface code and related tests, contributing to the overall stability and user experience of the tool.
golangipfspartydata-sciencep2p
uhLeeshUh/Andala
May 2018 - Mar 2021
A drawing web app for symmetric designs
Contributions:73 commits, 5 PRs, 58 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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