Alisha Awen
Founder, Director at Harmonic Alchemy Productions
Eastsound, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlisha Awen is a multidisciplinary founder and creative technologist with a decade of formal experience and a career spanning software architecture, systems engineering, and professional music composition. She has founded multiple ventures—including Harmonic Alchemy Productions and Keyword Smart Domains—where she blends web systems, DevOps/security sensibilities, and an esoteric Lisp-based publishing stack to produce searchable media catalogs, eZines, and podcasts. Her background includes senior engineering roles at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lotus/IBM, and product work acquired by Sybase, giving her deep experience in embedded, real-time, and enterprise web systems. Now focused on music production, sound design, and collaborative radio-theater projects, she also offers domain and digital marketing services from Orcas Island, WA. An unconventional technologist, she pairs formal music composition training with hands-on systems craft—often building bespoke tooling rather than relying on mainstream platforms.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Composition, Music Composition & Media Arts, Bachelor of Composition, Music Composition & Media Arts at New England Conservatory of MusicBall High School, Galveston, TX
Spanish
Github Skills (13)
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spacemacs1
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
harmonicalchemy/dotfiles
Feb 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:34 pushes, 2 branches, 1 issue in 3 years 11 months
harmonicalchemy/modular-emacs
Feb 2019 - Feb 2023
A new simpler module based emacs that may be easily extended...
Contributions:373 commits, 537 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 1 month
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